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I have two 3.0TB WD Red drives (WD30EFRX, September 2014) in my 6 bay RE316.
It's time to expand my data capacity, and I was hoping someone could advise on my best options.
Would I need to buy an...
Max_NAS wrote:
I have two 3.0TB WD Red drives (WD30EFRX, September 2014) in my 6 bay RE316.
It's time to expand my data capacity, and I was hoping someone could advise on my best options.
Would I need to buy another pair of the same drives to double capacity? Or can I install a single higher capacity drive?
The capacity rule for XRAID single redundancy is "sum the drives and subtract the largest". So in your case adding one additional 3 TB drive will double your capacity.
You could add a larger drive (say a 6 TB WD60EFRX), but you'd only be using 3 TB of it's capacity until you added a second one of that size. Some do plan ahead and do that - over the long haul, larger drives are often more cost effective. But you still have plenty of empty bays, and if your storage needs are growing slowly it might not be a good strategy for you.
You can't add a smaller drive though.
Max_NAS wrote:
I have two 3.0TB WD Red drives (WD30EFRX, September 2014) in my 6 bay RE316.
It's time to expand my data capacity, and I was hoping someone could advise on my best options.
Would I need to buy another pair of the same drives to double capacity? Or can I install a single higher capacity drive?
The capacity rule for XRAID single redundancy is "sum the drives and subtract the largest". So in your case adding one additional 3 TB drive will double your capacity.
You could add a larger drive (say a 6 TB WD60EFRX), but you'd only be using 3 TB of it's capacity until you added a second one of that size. Some do plan ahead and do that - over the long haul, larger drives are often more cost effective. But you still have plenty of empty bays, and if your storage needs are growing slowly it might not be a good strategy for you.
You can't add a smaller drive though.
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