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Combination of 6TB and 4TB disks inserted to RN104
Hello,
I need a small piece of info confirming;
I have a four bay system Ready NAS 104. bays 1 & 2 have 6TB HHD and are set up as X-Raid. I have added two more HDD to bays 3 & 4 butthey a...
Yes, you can only add disks with the same or greater capacity to an array.
You should be able to create a new volume on the 2 new disks though. but this will be inefficient use of the disks you have.
vandermerwe wrote:
You should be able to create a new volume on the 2 new disks though. but this will be inefficient use of the disks you have.
Well that depends. You could add 2 jbod volumes, which would give you 8 TB of non-redundant storage. Certainly not inefficient.
Adding 1 RAID-1 volume would give you 4 TB.
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