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Upgrade of drives due to low space
Hi guys, So my system came up that I am running low on space, I have drives in the following order: 2TB, 3TB, 2TB, 2TB So I purchased a used 4TB WD Red drive, hotswapped it into bay 1 which did hav...
Thanks for the detailed reply.
Yes you are correct I should have been saying terabytes not gigabytes.
If I was to move directly to 4-10tb drives and take out all 4-4terabite drives and put into a serial ata four Bay expansion.
That would leave about 8ish TB to transfer back to the Nas once it has sorted itself out.
Am I able to connect removable storage directly to the Nas in order to transfer all the files back.
I understand that this might be tedious moving things to the specific folders.
But essentially, I’m assuming that the drives will be Accessible like a normal drive, but some of their capacity will be hidden in the raid partitions that I don’t need to worry about since I have a full data set across four drives.
I’m also guessing in the scenario that each of the drives will have a similar file structure with the same folders.
Is this correct? I am just assuming that there will be different files in each of the folders but across the four drives all files will be accessible.
I am still tempted to add A 10 TB drive one at a time and start with two new 10 TB, but I really do like the idea of upgrading my back up removable storage array and taking out the 2 TB drives and replacing them with 4 TB drives there by doubling the capacity of the back up box.
I am unsure of which way to go but I will say that I am on five raid, am I able to convert it to x-raid?
Should I do this is there any benefit.
We still have about 2 TB available on the existing nas array. Not sure if that is relevant information but just wanted to throw it in there.
Yes you are correct I should have been saying terabytes not gigabytes.
If I was to move directly to 4-10tb drives and take out all 4-4terabite drives and put into a serial ata four Bay expansion.
That would leave about 8ish TB to transfer back to the Nas once it has sorted itself out.
Am I able to connect removable storage directly to the Nas in order to transfer all the files back.
I understand that this might be tedious moving things to the specific folders.
But essentially, I’m assuming that the drives will be Accessible like a normal drive, but some of their capacity will be hidden in the raid partitions that I don’t need to worry about since I have a full data set across four drives.
I’m also guessing in the scenario that each of the drives will have a similar file structure with the same folders.
Is this correct? I am just assuming that there will be different files in each of the folders but across the four drives all files will be accessible.
I am still tempted to add A 10 TB drive one at a time and start with two new 10 TB, but I really do like the idea of upgrading my back up removable storage array and taking out the 2 TB drives and replacing them with 4 TB drives there by doubling the capacity of the back up box.
I am unsure of which way to go but I will say that I am on five raid, am I able to convert it to x-raid?
Should I do this is there any benefit.
We still have about 2 TB available on the existing nas array. Not sure if that is relevant information but just wanted to throw it in there.
MexicanPeso wrote:
I am unsure of which way to go but I will say that I am on five raid, am I able to convert it to x-raid? ...is there any benefit.
Look on the XRAID control on the volume page. If there is a green stripe across it, then you already are running XRAID. If there isn't, then click on it, and you will then be using XRAID.
XRAID will automatically expand your volume - if you aren't using it you would need to manually create RAID groups and add them to the volume. That can get pretty complicated - XRAID makes it much simpler.
MexicanPeso wrote:
But essentially, I’m assuming that the drives will be Accessible like a normal drive, but some of their capacity will be hidden in the raid partitions that I don’t need to worry about since I have a full data set across four drives.
I’m also guessing in the scenario that each of the drives will have a similar file structure with the same folders.
Is this correct?
The NAS doesn't have built-in support for this, and I think it might be tricky to do even if you were using linux commands with ssh. Sp I don't recommend that path. If you did start over with 4x10TB, you should still set the existing drives aside until everything is back on the NAS, since you could power down the NAS and reinsert them if something goes wrong.
Also if you don't have quite enough storage to back everything up, you could reinsert the old disks, and transfer some files to external storage in a second step.
MexicanPeso wrote:
I am still tempted to add A 10 TB drive one at a time and start with two new 10 TB, but I really do like the idea of upgrading my back up removable storage array and taking out the 2 TB drives and replacing them with 4 TB drives there by doubling the capacity of the back up box.
You should of course upgrade the backup array so it would keep up with your NAS storage. You could perhaps purchase two 10 TB and two additional 4 TB drives, and do both now.
MexicanPeso wrote:
We still have about 2 TB available on the existing nas array. Not sure if that is relevant information but just wanted to throw it in there.
Then you are about 85% full, so this is a good time to expand it. You don't want to go over 90% if you can help it. If you are using snapshots you can try deleting the oldest ones and doing a balance - that should free up some space.
MexicanPeso wrote:
What is the maximum size of drives for this nas?
As Sandshark says, there is no known limit at this point - it can handle the largest drives available (which is 16 TB at the moment).
Though bigger volumes will take longer to resync when a drive is replaced.
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