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I have two identical formatted WD 1TB drives sitting around..they're new. Can I just buy the two bay product, plug in the drives and go from there?
As long as you have two disks that are supported by the HCL, you can use them. They don't need to be identical though it usually is what people do.
By default the NAS will use raid1 and give you 1TB redundant storage. The storage can then be expanded by replacing the disks (on a 2-bay NAS you will get the smallest disk capacity available for storage, so you will want to replace both disks to expand the available storage). So with a 2-bay NAS you are limited to the highest disk capacity available for the NAS (or twice that amount if you don't use redundancy) and you are not stuck with the originally inserted disks.
If disks are formatted, you could factory default the NAS to get them fully recognised. I recommend a factory default after updating the NAS to the latest firmware anyway (to apply the 6.1.5 update improvements).
By default the NAS will use raid1 and give you 1TB redundant storage. The storage can then be expanded by replacing the disks (on a 2-bay NAS you will get the smallest disk capacity available for storage, so you will want to replace both disks to expand the available storage). So with a 2-bay NAS you are limited to the highest disk capacity available for the NAS (or twice that amount if you don't use redundancy) and you are not stuck with the originally inserted disks.
If disks are formatted, you could factory default the NAS to get them fully recognised. I recommend a factory default after updating the NAS to the latest firmware anyway (to apply the 6.1.5 update improvements).
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