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Can't access NAS - password fail - and not showing up on TV
Hi all, Firstly, thanks for any help you might be able to give me. Mods - please move this if it needs to be in a different forum, I looked, but I couldn't work out which it needed to be in, it d...
OK, so, if I go with the RAID-5, and I have one 3TB Seagate Barracuda drive available to put into the system (just have to get the data off it), and I buy one more 3TB drive, and put the two in right now, before I reset the system and change the RAID... That will give me 11TB now, then allowing two more drives to be installed later.
So, I’ll see how I go, financially and add two 3Tb drives if I can, otherwise I’ll just use the one I have and add the other later.
If I understand correctly, as it’s now on xRAID2, once I add a third drive it’ll automatically go to RAID-5. So, I’ll probably just add one 3Tb drive (that I already have) now, then add three more 3Tb drives as I go along. I know that means that I’ll be “wasting” 1Tb as I’ll be over the 16Tb limit, but, as I can’t buy 2.5Tb drives anymore (there aren’t any in any of the retailers I usually use), that’s my only option, as I can’t put 2Tb drives in because “you can’t add a drive smaller than any of the drives in the unit at the start”.
StephenB, I can’t thank you enough for your patience and help while I got my head around all this. THANK YOU so much. As soon as you confirm (please) that I have this right, I’ll set about dropping all the data off the 3Tb drive and then add it to the NAS.
So, I’ll see how I go, financially and add two 3Tb drives if I can, otherwise I’ll just use the one I have and add the other later.
If I understand correctly, as it’s now on xRAID2, once I add a third drive it’ll automatically go to RAID-5. So, I’ll probably just add one 3Tb drive (that I already have) now, then add three more 3Tb drives as I go along. I know that means that I’ll be “wasting” 1Tb as I’ll be over the 16Tb limit, but, as I can’t buy 2.5Tb drives anymore (there aren’t any in any of the retailers I usually use), that’s my only option, as I can’t put 2Tb drives in because “you can’t add a drive smaller than any of the drives in the unit at the start”.
StephenB, I can’t thank you enough for your patience and help while I got my head around all this. THANK YOU so much. As soon as you confirm (please) that I have this right, I’ll set about dropping all the data off the 3Tb drive and then add it to the NAS.
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