Is TOS 5 installed on all drives?

[DigitalAnalog]

I currently have 2 SSDs and 1 HDD in my F4-423 running TOS 5.1. I'm planning on replacing my 2 1TB SSDs with 2 2TB SSDs. When I first initialised the NAS, I only had the SSDs so I believe that's where TOS was initially installed. I've since added a single HDD and planning to add more. My question - if I remove the 2 SSDs, would the system boot up as normal or would it try to reinitialize? And if it does, would it reformat my existing drive? Thank you.

[TMzethar]

Generally speaking, your HDD does not have TOS so you can't open TOS with only HDD in TNAS.
If you want HDDs to have TOS, there are two methods:
1. Reinstall TOS so that you can reinstall TOS for HDD
2. Enter system instructions to synchronize TOS to the HDD's system partition through custom task schedules or SSH/Telnet connections:

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lsblk #Confirm the drive letter, generally speaking, it should be a. But it's also possible that it's not.
mdadm -a /dev/md9 /dev/sda2
mdadm -a /dev/md8 /dev/sda3

Wait 10 minutes or so and then you should be able to open TOS with only HHD installed.

[DigitalAnalog]

I see, so if I remove the SSDs and just leave the drive, the TOS bootloader will kick in and ask me to re-initialise TOS?

[TMLyy]

Yes, follow the page guidelines to reinstall.

[TMzethar]

When you have TOS in your HHD, it will boot into the TOS page. Otherwise, it will go to the initialisation page.