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Adding a 2nd HHD
I have a question I am wondering if someone could help me with. I have 1 2TB HDD in my readynas RN102 2bay server and I want to add a 2nd HHD just to make sure my photos are backed up. Can I use a ...
is it possible to use 2 different size disk? know that the largest capacity would be that of the smaller disk?
Hello jmeyer50,
Yes it is possible. But then again, it is recommended you use the same size.
For example, you have 500GB in bay 1 and 1TB in bay 2 and they are configured as XRAID (RAID1) so the volume capacity is just 500GB, you have just wasted the other half of the 1TB in your bay 2.
Regards,
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