Installing two hard drives as seperate volumes

handy wrote:

Dave, can I just confirm something that I gather from the previous conversation you had on this thread? If I understand correctly, I would be able to set a Duo up with one drive in Flex-RAID, & then some months later add a 2nd drive in to the Duo, & using Flex-RAID configure it as additional space separate from the original drive, (this is the most important bit) without having to do a factory reset, thus losing all data on the 1st drive?

Correct. You can configure the NAS for Flex-RAID and then set the primary volume to Flex-RAID 0 (as noted above). Adding a 2nd drive at a later date will allow you to configure it as 2nd volume.

I have noticed a couple of threads where someone has been unable to add a 2nd drive (the NAS reports that it's unable to do add the disk) that appears to be a bug in the firmware. If I'm not mistaken, this has been addressed in the current beta firwmare (4.1.7):

viewtopic.php?f=66&t=35209&start=45#p230166

EDIT: and this thread: viewtopic.php?f=66&t=42174&p=236110#p235800