Can I start with three 3TB hard drives and then add 4TB drives in the future or do they all have to be the same size?
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Each drive you add must be equal or larger to the largest drive you've had before.
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With the Synology RAID option you can start with the 3TB drives and add larger ones later. You just can't anything of smaller size than the drives used to create the array.
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All the same size. You can add a slave 5 bay and use 4T in that one once you outgrow the first.
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No. Just add the disks one at a time, letting the system reconfigure itself after each disk is added (may take a day or so, but you can use it while it is reconfiguring). The data will be spread over all the disks reduntantly.
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I don't think they HAVE to be identical, but I think it is good policy to at least make sure that they are all the same size. The smallest disk in the set will cause the system to ignore any space on other volumes that go beyond that smaller size. To stick a 500GB drive in a box that has three other larger drives should give you a 2 TB box (4 X 500). Seagate might be unhappy about this, but if you stick a WD drive in their box the system should be able to make it go. The drive is compatible with SATA or it isn't, right? Warranty is another matter. That WD drive would almost certainly void your waranty. But if the box is under warranty, they should give you the correct replacement drive,
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Yes with three provisos. First what you are backing up must easily fit into two 3TB of space. Second, the Seagate could also crash and third, you need to use a back-up program which makes the Seagate a startup drive. I use Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper.
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I currently have a 3TB drive in it and it's working fine. I cannot comment on 4TB.
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I have a 3tb drive in mine and it works fine I don't see any reason why it won't work with a 4 Tb drive
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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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Hey Melissa I know you can connect hard drives and flash drives but I'm not sure if it'll take a 3TB. It wouldn't hurt to take it to your nearest best buy or electronics center and ask to try it on theirs. Let me know if you need help with anything else.
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You sure can. I have mine working with one WD red 3tb hard drive. Will upgrade to another one same capacity once I get this one full.
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Yes,I use 3 sans digital 8 bays and added this one to the group and put 3tb drives in it.WORKS GREAT!
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You can have two 3.5" hard drives, three 2.5" hard drives or a 3.5" and a 2.5" together.
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Based on the Synology RAID calculator you should have 12TB of usable space and 6TB of parity (http://www.synology.com/en-us/support/RAID_calculator) Adding 3 x 3TB drives would give you 18TB of usable space and 6TB of parity
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I believe by default they come in a RAID 1, which would give you 2TB of total storage. If you set it to RAID0, you'll get use of all 4TB (probably 3.6 or so useable) but you will not have redundancy.
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you would have 18 bays, * 4TB drives for a potential of 72TB of space.... HOWEVER - actual space will depend on the RAID mode you choose and the security and peformance you desire. Also a formatted 4TB doesnt really give you 4TB so you will probably have 3.2-3.6 TB from each drive. The real issue IMHO is the quality of 4TB drives and the performance. Unless you dont care about your data I wouldnt create a single volume that big.
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That will depend on your OS and drive manufacturer. I'm using Win 7 and a Seagate drive so I had to partition my 3TB into 2 logical drives. Don't quite understand why but that's what Seagate said I had to do.
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No. The days of internal expansion are over. Suggest you take a look at the 2013 model, you can 4 Drives.
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Yes, you can put up to 3 units of WD Red 3TB NAS Hard Drives in the Lenovo ThinkServer TS140, in a RAID configuration.