can I mix exsisting drives with data on them some 4T ,2T& 1T as a mass storage for exsisting files , Or do I have to have all matching drives 8x4T th
378104
Their is no problem with mixing various size drives. I did that until I eventually updated to all 4th drives.
378105
You can mix drives all you want as each drive is independent, it does not combine them into one drive. You will need 8 drive letters.
378106
Yes you can. I have couple of 1tb from Seagate, couple of 2 tb from both Seagate and western digital and a 5 tb from segate. All worked fine with existing data no issues except the 5tb as I had to change the file allocation type to be recognized.
378107
Since this box isn't a raid box yes does not matter what drive you put in it. It will just mount it to the desktop
378108
I would think so. Each drive is seen independently by the system and can be assigned a drive letter. I have done it without issues on the very similar docking station, from the same company
378109
Yes, you can mix different drives up to 4TB in size each for a total of 32TB.
1895541
If you are set on Raid 1, it will limit you to 4 TB because the other drive is duplicating #1. If you go into your WD My Cloud you can change from Raid 1 and obtain full use of the aggregate 8 TB if that is what you want.
984389
That really is about all there is to it. Of course, during the process your new drive will be appropriately partitioned, formatted, etc...but it is all handled by your RAID software. Just be aware that when you buy a replacement drive, if you buy one that is larger or has a faster rotational speed than your remaining drive, the performance of the replacement drive will be limited to matching the size and speed specifications of the remaining drive. (Don't buy a 4 TB drive if the remaining drive is 1 TB...it will work, but you will lose 3 TB of usable space.)
663100
No. If you use Synology Hybrid RAID, you can expand with the same or larger drives. With 5 bays, there are numerous expansion options and multiple volume options. There is a lis of options on Synology's website support.
1678777
if you mean that you are working with less than 8 drives, yes, you can add other drives, one at a time (the system will do a rebuild of the array when you effectively add the new drive). Beyond 8 drives, you can only add other drives with the expansion unit. That means the USB and esata interfaces cannot be used for drives that are meant to be part of a RAID array. External drives (through usb and esata) can only be shared on their own, as individual volumes. And yes, all raid options are supposed to work with any number of drives. I started my array with 6 and soon went to add a 7th drive.
1233161
8 TB drives work fine. I am running Seagate 8 TB archive drives with no issue.
140744
you would have 18 bays, * 4TB drives for a potential of 72TB of space.... HOWEVER - actual space will depend on the RAID mode you choose and the security and peformance you desire. Also a formatted 4TB doesnt really give you 4TB so you will probably have 3.2-3.6 TB from each drive. The real issue IMHO is the quality of 4TB drives and the performance. Unless you dont care about your data I wouldnt create a single volume that big.
104431
I too have 4 Western Digital Red 3TB drives in mine. No problems. Assuming that your drives are the same physical size as these, you should be OK.
928100
I used 4TB Drives from WDC and Seagate, they work fine. I don't know if 5TB drive would work or not.
1762478
The manual doesn't say. I used a 1TB drive and it worked fine. You can add 2 external drives, but no mention of size limit there. You can map it as a network drive, so you can move content back and forth that way, but slower ofc.
2266447
No it won't support 4TB drives. According to the specs it will support 3TB.
2075768
The 4TB version has 2-2TB drives hence 4TB. That is in RAID 0 format. If you setup RAID 1 you only have 2TB usable.Good luck
912011
Two 4TB drives. You can configure it to mirror those two 4TB, split it so parts if each file could end up on both drives (makes it very fast, but vunerable to corruption if either one fails), or separately to use them as two unique 4 TB drives for a total of 8TB.
399559
Yes. I currently am using 2 HDD's for total redundancy of my data so 2 4tb drives only provide 4tb of data storage. I am using a 3rd 4tb HDD to automatically backup the data. In the future if I add 2 more 4tb drives I could double the capacity of both the online storage and backup capacity.
66178
Yes it will work. I'm using it in this configuration with 2 Seagate 6TB drive. Seems like you will have full speed up to 4 drives then half of it up to 8 drives.
1632889
I answered yes by accident... You CANNOT use smaller drives for 2 reasons. The first is that you can't add smaller volumes to a RAID array on the device and second, you can't expand an existing volume to the new device, you have to make a new volume.
699002
Yes,I use 3 sans digital 8 bays and added this one to the group and put 3tb drives in it.WORKS GREAT!