If you by the 5Big 10T, can you later buy new drives to up it to 20T? If so does it have to be all at once or one at a time?
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The module has 5 slots for drives. Yes you could put bigger drives in the caddies - if you change the drives it will not match the jbod raid set so all the previous data will be pretty much lost. I believe you need to keep all the drive sizes matched.
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Nope you have to already have the hard drives or plan to pick them up get them quick they can be hard to find as they are out of production. I love these the drives can be USB 3.0 Thunderbolt or wifi with these. I have 2 of these and 3 of the full size.
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No, I am using it in a non-raid setup. I did try to use it with a 2 TB drive as a 4th drive. It didn't work. I then put a 500 MB drive on it and it worked. I put the 2 TB directly on a standard sata port.
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Way too much information. Short answer: Yes. Long answer: You already have a 5400 RPM SATA drive, so all you're doing is upgrading the size.
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yes you can, and as you add it will expand the RAID. Check out the Thecus forum or tech support their is a lot of answers there.
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Yes, you can. That's the main reason I bought it. Just make sure your HD is 2TB or less. It works great!
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I am far from an expert on such things and do not know what you are trying to accomplish. Several things you should think about. This is an older 3GB/sec drive not the newer 6GB/sec drive. It takes 4 hard drives to do RAID 10. Does your motherboard support RAID 10? Does your mother board support 6GB/sec drives? The reason to use RAID 10 is speed and redundancy. If your motherboard supports 6GB/sec drives, these drives would not be your best choice. These drives are listed for RAID 0 & 1. I would guess that they should work fine in RAID 10. I use two in RAID 0 with no problems and have had two 320GB blue drives in RAID 0 for several years. I am far from an expert on such things and do not know what you are trying to accomplish. Several things you should think about. This is an older 3GB/sec drive not the newer 6GB/sec drive. It takes 4 hard drives to do RAID 10. Does your motherboard support RAID 10? Does your mother board support 6GB/sec drives? The reason to use RAID 10 is speed and redundancy. If your motherboard supports 6GB/sec drives, these drives would not be your best choice. These drives are listed for RAID 0 & 1. I would guess that they should work fine in RAID 10. I use two in RAID 0 with no problems and have had... » Read More I am far from an expert on such things and do not know what you are trying to accomplish. Several things you should think about. This is an older 3GB/sec drive not the newer 6GB/sec drive. It takes 4 hard drives to do RAID 10. Does your motherboard support RAID 10? Does your mother board support 6GB/sec drives? The reason to use RAID 10 is speed and redundancy. If your motherboard supports 6GB/sec drives, these drives would not be your best choice. These drives are listed for RAID 0 & 1. I would guess that they should work fine in RAID 10. I use two in RAID 0 with no problems and have had two 320GB blue drives in RAID 0 for several years. « Show Less
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Currently running four 4T WD drives , Win 7, 64 bit machinr. No idea if they support boot, using all for storage with four other 2T and 4 other 1T drives. Most are Seagate.
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You can add drives as you need them. The drives can be of mixed sizes too for the hybrid raid configuation; however, I recommend you try to keep to one drive size so select your initial drives with the thought of expanding later.
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This shouldn't be a deal breaker. If you've got a T5 screwdriver and the tiniest amount of tech savviness, you can buy an 8GB stick online for cheap, and replace the 2GB stick it comes with (the other 2 of the 4 are onboard). This sets you up to 10GB with almost no cost.
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You can configure the drive to be either 4 TB or 8 TB. The device itself only contains two 4TB drives.
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No. I tried hooking up a 3 TB drive and you have to format it NTSF which doesn't go up to 3 TB.Tech support said you can format the drive with two partitions. But that didn't work for me.
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I started with one 2TB and have been running it for several months. Adding a second of another brand and size. It's flexible to do that. You can even put in 2.5's with a converter tray, or some people mix in SSD's as well. Pretty limitless. AND most use cases are hot swappable, meaning you can pull and add drives while running.
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sure hope you have not used more on the drive the terrabyte drive that is usuallly its customarry to replace with same size drive or larger for that very reason but load in the4 new drive and and the old make secondary you can send all to the new drive or drag and drop in new drive
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You can start with one drive and add drives as needed. Of course if you don't use at least 2 drives you can't RAID them. The NAS will pick an appropriate RAID configuration automatically, but you can override it if you like. You can even mix disk sizes but that is not the best solution. You should use SATA 6 drives. As you add new drives the system recognizes them and reconfigures your system.
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Can you run RAID that way? Id like to install 2 2TB drives, for large capacity RAID.
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You can always buy more, but depends on what the seller has. So you may have to buy 1 here and 1 there to get the number of drives you want.