First off, apologies for any stupid questions...new to the ReadyNAS world and fumbling about at the moment! Be gentle with me...
Currently I use a WinXP box with with 4x 1Tb drives in it, for holding all the household files, docs, movies etc. Wanted to move to something a bit more elegant (and maintenance free!) so got a Netgear 4bay NV+, as well as a new 3Tb drive for it.
So... my thoughts were that I could add the 3Tb (blank) drive, and add 3 other data-populated drives from the XP box, leaving me with (say): 1x 3Tb disk (empty), 3x 1Tb disk (populated). I would not be interested in any data redundancy as the data is backed up or available elsewhere.
I added the new 3Tb drive to NV+ (on it's own) and it is reporting only a quarter of it is free. I understand from the Netgear Manual (page 100) that in RAID-0 that is as expected. So my question is: If I create the configuration described above, is this possible? Would the full volume of (1x 3Tb + 3x 1Tb) be available? When I add the data-populated drives will the existing data be wiped?
