My Book Live Duo 6 TB - Update Firmware on Airport Express while MBLD is "rebuilding"

[towers00]

Doing extensive reading on the WD community to get up to speed here, but I do have a question that needs attention:

Can I update the firmware on my Airport Express while MBLD is "rebuilding" (i.e. I recently changed "storage mode" from Raid 0 to Raid 1)? 

Airport Utility warns me: "This device and its network services will be temporarily unavailable. Are you sure you want to continue?"

[Wizer]

No.

Wait until the drive finishes rebuilding

you can damage the entire partition if the process is interrupted some how while updating the router

[towers00 · Accepted solution]

Probably best to wait unti it finishes rebuilding. I went ahead at 86% and it did not interrupt the process. In total the rebuilding process took 20 hrs. for a Raid 1 (now 3TB) setup.

Thanks for responding Wizer.

[WDTony]

Actually losing network connectivity during the brief time that the router is updating will have no effect on the My Book Live Duo's RAID rebuild.