re ready Nass ultra 2

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oliver1994chapp wrote:

Please find screen shot enclosed

 

As you can see bay 1 is 1tb and bay 2 is 500gb

 

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Your NAS is using RAID-1 - as you can see from the screenshot next to the volume wheel.  RAID-1 mirrors the disks - everything written to one is simultaneously written to the other.  That gives you some protection against a disk failure, and also allows you to expand the volume size later on without data loss.

Since they are mirrored, the volume size can't be bigger than smallest disk - 500 GB in you case.

Personally I think that RAID-1 is the best mode for most users.  If you want to keep it, you should get two 2 TB drives (perhaps Seagate Ironwolf models).  Using both would give you 2 TB of storage.  Alternatively, get one Ironwolf to start, and just use one disk in the NAS now.  Then add a second matching disk later on (as budget permits).  A single Ironwolf 2 TB drive costs about $80 (current US pricing).

The other option is to set up the disks to be independent - using one volume for each disk.  This mode is called "jbod".  You'd need to 

1. change to flexraid by clicking on the XRAID control in your screen shot.  The green stripe on the control will disappear
2. destroy the current volume (click on the volume settings wheel) 
3. click on the first drive in the center graphic and create a jbod volume
4. click on the second drive in the center graphic, and create a second jbod volume.

Then you need to put some shares on each disk.  You don't want a volume to get more than about 85% full, so you want to set up the shares with that in mind.