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Jamie2
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Sep 18, 2017
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NSR NAS - Adding HDD of another Capacity

Hi,    I have a Negear ReadyNAS RN10400 - 4bay and wanted to know if it is possible to add HDD's of different capacity.    I have 2x  5TB Western Digital (Red) - Intellipower SATA 6 Gb/s 64 MB Ca...
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    StephenB
    Sep 19, 2017

    Jamie2 wrote:

    Hi Stephen,

    Can I still add 2x 6TB in to the remaining bays using JBOD and create seperate volumes for each ?


    Yes.  Hot-insert the disks, and create the volumes on the volumes tab.  

     

    You'll then need to create shares on those volumes.

     

    Frontview backup jobs are handy for for copying shares to the new volumes.  You'll need to create a temporary share, then create a backup job.  After it completes, check the new share.  Then delete the original, and rename the temporary share as desired.

     

    Ideally you'll approximately balance the free space on each volume (making sure that no volume gets too full).

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