Does this unit ofter both raid 5/6 or just one raid version? and is it possible to add HDs later down the road (hot swap)?
1738949
it does handle hot swaps as well, have mine set as a raid 6 (6 drives) two hot spares
1738950
It offers both and hot spares. Yes, you can add HD's; I'm not sure about hot swap, I shut mine down before swapping one.
606996
Yes, this can be done with Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR). And yes, the process is not difficult, i.e. it is "smooth" (if you meant something else by smooth, please let me know). But upgrading the drives on this unit is one of the benefits of it. If you use traditional RAID options, then no you will not be able to upgrade one drive at a time to increase capacity. From my discussions with Synology, 12 bay units are generally recommended with traditional RAID, but they did indicate that many people use SHR with no problems. Personally, I would try to minimize use of the unit during the upgrade since it may help speed up the expansion.
188307
yes, I have two of these boxes, & I I either raid 0 or leave it at the default which is JBOD.right now, I buy a lot of Seagate Barracuda 4 terabyte drives, and put them in and out of these boxes per my various jobs. I work off of the one box that I have at 16 terabytes raid 0, & I back up to the JBOD single drives. it all works fine, & I configure everything using Disk Utility.
1668783
Any Western Digital RE drive is good for any raid type as thats what they're designed for I personally have mine setup as part of a 12 drive raid 5 array.
2116433
Honest opinion as much as this may suck to hear, take the hot swap out. Mine was faulty and from reviews I've seen I'm far from the only one it happened too. A hot swap would a been nice but I had error after error on my raid and soon as I took it out no more errors.
117365
that's not true, note I had to update the firmware to get that option of Non RAID. But i cant remember if it was the firmware vision it came with or not. But the firmware was available on the product site
1366633
This model does not have RAID 0. Only the very top end model has tha(UX301-XH71T I think)--Edit: Apparently I was incorrect, as the person in the comment reply below said this model does in fact have Raid 0 (according to "Properties" of the 2 partitions, OS and DATA). There is no option in the BIOS to disable this, which is unfortunate. Although RAID 0 using SSDs is not nearly as dangerous for your data as with a normal hard-drive since a failure is so unlikely.
962629
I have 3 TB drives in a raid 5 configuration. No issues yet. We use it primarily for time machine backups.
1476793
depend on yore RAID, can be done using JBOD if you use RAID0 to RAID5 every drive/s you add will have to be its own RAID
1895544
If you bought the one with pre-installed hard drives, out of the box it will be RAID-1 (mirrored) with 4TB of available storage. You can undo the formatting and redo it as two separate 4TB drives for a total of 8TB of storage, but then you lose all of the protection the mirror provides.
1731447
Yes, you can use with a single drive or multiple drives. They do not have to be in a RAID configuration. That is optional.
91779
Yes either raid 0 or raid 1 is possible. I would not recommend this product though.
1611104
This is diskless - just be sure to get HD's that are made for NAS (Seegate ST4000VN000, WD WD40EFRX, etc) do not use energy savers or spin down disks, it will cause havoc on your RAID integrity. So plz do read what drives are supported and are recommended. I put the ST4000VN000, in all of my devices, works great.
1730505
sorry for my first reply, hit the wrong key. it has included the hard disks, you will find it also without it so you can chose the hd size you want in it. i do not know if can be used in raid 1 or 5, sorry.
1560555
Yes, I have one built with 4x6TB WD RED drives in an 18TB RAID-5 volume. I was able to format it with GPT, NTFS. I tested copying files, and I ran a chkdsk /r to test the free space. Everything looks good so far. I am going to be using it soon to fill with data.
1161100
The hot swap functionality should be located in the raid controller not the drives, aside from possibilly energy feature on drive. I think you have drive optimized for network storage.
608436
It's a single disk hard drive. You could format it to have two partitions, but that won't give you physical redundancy. If you need the redundancy of a raid system you're going to have to move up to one.