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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...
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).
Hi Stephen,
Thank you for your reply , I have 2x 5TB inserted into my NAS at the moment via JBOD. Can I still add 2x 6TB in to the remaining bays using JBOD and create seperate volumes for each ? The 3TB was just an exaple I was using when questioning if I could mix the Sizes of my HDD capacity via JBOD.
Regards
Jamie
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).
Hi Stephen,
Thank you for your help , I will give it a go.
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