11-09-2022, 02:00 PM
Years ago I had a small (2 bay) netgear readynas duo desktop nas that had a proprietary (?) Raid on it that would allow me to add drives on the fly and it would resize the array to expand.
For instance if I had 2 250 Gig hard drives, I could later just swap in a single 500 Gig hard drive a few months later. It would all resize. In theory. It worked until it finally died.
I'm about to finally buy a QNAP TS-873AeU-4G-US. Can I put in four drives now and add more later? I really can't find this kind of information? Or do I need to wait longer till I save up the money to buy all 8 drives to start?
For instance if I had 2 250 Gig hard drives, I could later just swap in a single 500 Gig hard drive a few months later. It would all resize. In theory. It worked until it finally died.
I'm about to finally buy a QNAP TS-873AeU-4G-US. Can I put in four drives now and add more later? I really can't find this kind of information? Or do I need to wait longer till I save up the money to buy all 8 drives to start?