Hi,
I currently have two external Western Digital drives (2TB & 4TB) and need more space and need my data on one drive. I initially looked at the My Cloud EX2 8TB but after reading some reviews I'm wondering if it'd be worth going for a drive that can be expanded... Perhaps maybe a 4 bay NAS drive.
At this point I'm happy to have my data stored across multiple drives acting as one (RAID 0) with the potential to have a backup mirror drive in the future.
So my question and requirements:
- What's a good NAS drive that has 4 bays that can go up to 12TB and is reasonably priced? To get up to 8TB I don't really want to go over £400 (is that even possible?!) and would like to leave 2 bays empty for now (ie. only have 2 x 4TB drives in there ready to expand to 12TB - 16TB when I need to.
- For the time being could I buy a diskless NAS and use both the hard drives in the existing WD drives in the bays? Or do the drives need to be identical (model and size) if they're going to be part of a RAID? Could I at least use one of them?
- I'm on a Mac so would have to be Mac compatible first and foremost.
Thanks for your help and sorry if this post makes me sound like a noob.
Steve
I currently have two external Western Digital drives (2TB & 4TB) and need more space and need my data on one drive. I initially looked at the My Cloud EX2 8TB but after reading some reviews I'm wondering if it'd be worth going for a drive that can be expanded... Perhaps maybe a 4 bay NAS drive.
At this point I'm happy to have my data stored across multiple drives acting as one (RAID 0) with the potential to have a backup mirror drive in the future.
So my question and requirements:
- What's a good NAS drive that has 4 bays that can go up to 12TB and is reasonably priced? To get up to 8TB I don't really want to go over £400 (is that even possible?!) and would like to leave 2 bays empty for now (ie. only have 2 x 4TB drives in there ready to expand to 12TB - 16TB when I need to.
- For the time being could I buy a diskless NAS and use both the hard drives in the existing WD drives in the bays? Or do the drives need to be identical (model and size) if they're going to be part of a RAID? Could I at least use one of them?
- I'm on a Mac so would have to be Mac compatible first and foremost.
Thanks for your help and sorry if this post makes me sound like a noob.
Steve
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