02-28-2020, 03:37 PM
Hi there I have a qnap ts 453Be with two bays with 4tb ironwood drives in raid 1 They are nearly full.
I want to buy two 10tb drives for the other bays.
I could set these up raid 1 too and have 14tb of space ?
In future If I want to replace old 4tb drives later with bigger drives say a further two 10tb drives. Can I just copy data on 1 old 4tb drive to a new 1otb drive (which I have just swapped out for one of the old 4tb drives) . Then swap out that old 4tb and set up raid 5 across the four 10tb drives ?
Or I think I can add them now and set the RAID to 5 across 4Tb,4Tb,10Tb,10TB but believe this will limit the new drives to 4tb too and only get 75% of this ie 12tb. Future wise though I think would be simpler as I could just replace one drive and reset raid. Then swap out other and reset raid.
Im am def no expert and just picking things up from internet.
So would appreciate if you could confirm the options are correct and what you think would be best.
Many thanks
Lorraine
I want to buy two 10tb drives for the other bays.
I could set these up raid 1 too and have 14tb of space ?
In future If I want to replace old 4tb drives later with bigger drives say a further two 10tb drives. Can I just copy data on 1 old 4tb drive to a new 1otb drive (which I have just swapped out for one of the old 4tb drives) . Then swap out that old 4tb and set up raid 5 across the four 10tb drives ?
Or I think I can add them now and set the RAID to 5 across 4Tb,4Tb,10Tb,10TB but believe this will limit the new drives to 4tb too and only get 75% of this ie 12tb. Future wise though I think would be simpler as I could just replace one drive and reset raid. Then swap out other and reset raid.
Im am def no expert and just picking things up from internet.
So would appreciate if you could confirm the options are correct and what you think would be best.
Many thanks
Lorraine