3 or 4 bay nas that can accomadate raid 1 (2 x 1tb wd green for important data) and 1x 3tb wd green for movies etc (not in rai

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Mitchell Silk

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As the title mentions, im after a 3 bay nas.

2 x 1 tb wd green (already have) for important docs and photos in raid 1

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1 x 3tb wd green for movies with no raid config

I want to know if thats even possible. I just emailed promise RE a 4 bay ns4600 they have for $199 to see if its compatible.

I should also mention i already have a dns 320 with 2x1tb greens.

Would it be more cost efficient to go buy a 3tb lenovo nas and use that for movies (streaming)

Thanks in advance
 
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ingtar33

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that's not how a NAS works. think of it as a giant external hard drive (singular), or network drive on a server.

It's not meant to be partitioned into multiple drives. That's not how they work (or at least i've never seen one with the firmware to work like that)

 
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Yeah im hoping to use it as a network drive. But is there a 4 bay solution that could in a way give me "two network drives" in a way, despite being in the one enclosure. And i think you replied before j edited. I already have a dns320, would i be better off leaving that as is and just buying another nas for media (for htpc to stream from) whether it be a lenovo 2 or 3tb or a new dns 320L and put my own hd in? Thanks for your quick response :)
 
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You should be able to do it with Synology Hybrid RAID.

http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/What_is_Synology_Hybrid_RAID%3F

I only played with it a little before going with a traditional RAID 5. But it may be able to do what you want. It will definitely do 3x1TB across your three drives (two 1TB, 1 3TB), then you can assign the free 2TB on the 3TB drive as a JBOD. i.e. You'll end up with a 3x1TB RAID 5 + 2TB JBOD.

Edit: Multiple volumes are not a problem. Most NASes should be able to do it. Most of them are just Linux computers, so with shell access (via SSH) you can configure them any way you can configure Linux.
 
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