Can you mix different size drives if I want to upgrade past 10TB?
647148
yes can put any size drive in the bays that you'd like, but if you want them to be part of a raid, they have to be all of a matching gb size. I have 3 2tb drives set up as a raid, and a couple of randomly size drives as backups that aren't included in the raid. overall it's a very versatile piece of equipment.
924553
No. New drives have to be equal to or larger than the largest installed drive.
240457
I am really sure but, you would probably lose 3-4 GB of data because of manufacture formatting, I would suggest go with 2TB.
1112433
what? will size of partitions? As long as the destination drive is the same size or larger than the original drive, you're good to go. If that's what you're asking.
723799
I'm not sure. That might be needed. I still haven't been able to get mine to work in either drive yet.
378106
Yes you can. I have couple of 1tb from Seagate, couple of 2 tb from both Seagate and western digital and a 5 tb from segate. All worked fine with existing data no issues except the 5tb as I had to change the file allocation type to be recognized.
1008630
I think you can chose which gb you would like to use depending on how much storage you want. I hope this answers your question.
506901
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.
912012
You can configure the drive to be either 4 TB or 8 TB. The device itself only contains two 4TB drives.
327896
Nope, add what you want. Don't know about inserting already used (data on board) drives. I've always placed 'new' / clean drives in. There isn't a requirement to fill all slots. I have (3) 1TB drives in my 5N.
1206811
You can replace the drive with any size SATA or SAS drive, however if you are using RAID you should have all drives in the astray match capacity. SAS and SATA cannot exist in the same array but can be set up in dire separate arrays on the same controller.
399560
yes you can. I am currently running two of the 4 TB NAS drives from Seagate and I left the others empty. The device is scalable in that way however you will need to backup data on your current drive if you later want the added performance or redundancy of adding it to a RAID array.
2235682
No, RAIDS do not work this way, you cannot change between types on the fly. however, XRAID, which this model offers would give you redundancy and is expandable (can't remember if this can be done with 2 drives though).
399817
You sure can, I have four drives in actually. Good case to use for any basic build. Just be careful with large RAM, I did have to get creative with my new corsair 8gb because it was interfering with one Hard drive
1123021
I currently have a 3TB drive in it and it's working fine. I cannot comment on 4TB.
1496448
Not enough room for 3.5 & another drive. You might be able to engineer 2 of 2.5" low profile drives.
1218968
You can use regular 2.5" HDDs but you'll want to pay attention to the thickness of the drive. I went with a WD Red 1TB. I don't have the article handy but there is a good writeup out there on the max thickness and even how to mod it for thicker drives.