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Vertically expanding 104: Can I change 1 drive only?
I will soon have a 104 with the following X-RAID2 drives installed: 1 TB 1 TB 2 TB I believe this will give about 2 TB of space. My plan is to add a 4TB drive in a year or so. After expansion sh...
All it needs is to be able to create redundant space. The advice that you need to upgrade 2 drives assumes that all the existing drives are the same size.
In your situation that is not the case. The calculators will give you the approximate volume size regardless of the orde of disk additions - although any new disk must of course be the same size or larger than existing disks.
Your original post is therefore correct given that you will be adding 4 tb drives progressively.
In your situation that is not the case. The calculators will give you the approximate volume size regardless of the orde of disk additions - although any new disk must of course be the same size or larger than existing disks.
Your original post is therefore correct given that you will be adding 4 tb drives progressively.
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