HDD selection

[Enquiries]

Hi Team,

I've followed your channel and website for a number of years, appreciate the insights you've provided. I'm using a 2-bay QNAP TS-251B with a single WD Gold 8TB for 4y+ now. I'm thinking about getting a secondary disk to have RAID-1, as my disk could fail anytime. Instead of getting another WD Gold 8TB, I'm thinking about WD Gold 16TB, very good price per GB. I want to utilise that 16TB disk for the Synology DS924+ that I'm hoping to buy by the end of this year. What do you think about that? I don't want to use the QNAP NAS in the near future as I don't like its software capability anymore.

Many thanks!

Regards,
Hien

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Yes, you can either set them both in RAID1 mirror or you can set two separate volumes in order to maximise the storage space. You can automate backups from drive 1 to a drive 2.
You can later use one or both drives in Synology SHR.