- Feb 9, 2007
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Hello all. I have two desktop computers both with one 2 TB and one 1TB drive each (total 3tb each) for storage which I mirror from time to time. They also have 1tb drives for booting/system and between my laptops and old hard drives I have at least 3 more tb externally.
Now, I am willing to buy a NAS to centralize the data and get redundancy. I don't want to waste the 8+ hard drives I already have. That's why I've looked into Synology and found the ds414j. (The ones for even more drives are very expensive). I would spread all the data to the external drives and then install the two 2tb and two 1tb drives into the device to make an array, then copy the data from the external drives into the NAS.
According to the raid calculator in their webpage, two 2tb and two 1tb drives would give me four effective terabytes with one drive redundancy using SHR. Switching one 1tb drive for a 4tb would give me 5 effective terabytes and switching two of them would give me 4 terabytes.
Of course, my question is: Does the array grow dynamicaly? I assume that if one of the drives dies, I can switch it for a newer, bigger one and the device will rebuild and grow the array using the new available space. My doubt is that it may instead keep the array like it was created, treating the new drive as the original one regardless of its size (which would be a waste and for the price I would just buy a 2-bay Synology plus two 6tb drives).
I hope someone has had any experience with them.
Thanks!
Now, I am willing to buy a NAS to centralize the data and get redundancy. I don't want to waste the 8+ hard drives I already have. That's why I've looked into Synology and found the ds414j. (The ones for even more drives are very expensive). I would spread all the data to the external drives and then install the two 2tb and two 1tb drives into the device to make an array, then copy the data from the external drives into the NAS.
According to the raid calculator in their webpage, two 2tb and two 1tb drives would give me four effective terabytes with one drive redundancy using SHR. Switching one 1tb drive for a 4tb would give me 5 effective terabytes and switching two of them would give me 4 terabytes.
Of course, my question is: Does the array grow dynamicaly? I assume that if one of the drives dies, I can switch it for a newer, bigger one and the device will rebuild and grow the array using the new available space. My doubt is that it may instead keep the array like it was created, treating the new drive as the original one regardless of its size (which would be a waste and for the price I would just buy a 2-bay Synology plus two 6tb drives).
I hope someone has had any experience with them.
Thanks!
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