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Will Readynas RN202 support 32TB of total hard drive volume
I'm using RN102 and have a 16Tb hard drive. I want to ask if I buy another 16TB hard drive, will it have enough capacity?
TVDH wrote:
I'm using RN102 and have a 16Tb hard drive. I want to ask if I buy another 16TB hard drive, will it have enough capacity?
Yes, if you switch to FlexRAID before adding the second disk. If you leave it in X-RAID, you'll end up with RAID-1 (mirrored disks), so no increase in capacity.
FWIW, I recommend going with two 16 TB volumes ("JBOD") instead of one 32 TB volume. If you have two volumes, then if a disk fails you only lose the files on the failed disk. If you only have one volume, then when a disk fails you lose everything. Either way, if you care about the files, then it is important to have a backup plan in place.
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