can i hot swap the drives
770876
if you pull a drive it will disconnect all of he drives and reconnect. it's kind of annoying
1476795
Not really. You would have to format the existing drives when you added the new ones. What you're describing *might* be possible if you used the JBOD (just a bunch of disks) configuration, but not for any RAID. For all their RAID configs, you have to choose the number and size of disks at creation, and you can't change it without reformatting.
1656451
I am not sure about the hot spare but it can be configured with RAID5 using 3 drives.
399565
Yes. The redundancy level will vary by the number of drives but you can certainly start with 3 and add more later on.
2091880
As long as your Operating System supports the drives then it should be no problem.
736032
I think the easiest thing to do would be to install one of the 750gb drives and let WHS incorporate it into your array. Then tell WHS that you want to remove the original 500gb drive. It *should* transfer all of your data from that drive to your new one, allowing you to remove it and then install the remaining new drives.
195135
I would strongly advise Against swapping the drives out for a DR purpose, as there is NO guarantee that you would be able to re-build the RAID on the system in the event that you lose both drives. You would be better keeping the drives singular out of RAID for that purpose, unless you are fully bringing down / rebuilding a RAID each time you swap the drives.. which gets costly / time consuming.
810701
Yes you can. If you are going to replace the drives try to go with the same name drives or at least 7200 RPM.
317856
Yes, that is very easy. The system will then use the redundant data to reorganize how the data is organized on your drives. If you have enough drive capacity and enough drives it can also be set up to keep your data even with two drive failures. So if you swap out a drive, it will then rebuild the data allocations to accommodate that. The key point is that it does all the thinking for you in the background to manage it.
1560556
I am running 4 X 2tb hard drives in a "mirror" config. That only gives me 4tb of actual storage space but the hot swap feature was what I wanted.
641985
No this is a formatted pic hdd. You may be able to attempt an external hook up with it but not an internal swap. I'd do some Google searching though I'm not sure if this one will work externally due to its size.
2077589
You can migrate the drives to a new unit but there are a few things that get lost. see this tutorial:http://www.synology.com/en-us/support/tutorials/484
326289
Unless there are limitations imposed by your motherboard, you can; however, the concept of using striped format is really something that helps hard drives with movable disks. Nevertheless, I've never tried it, but it sounds feasible. Good luck
727945
YES, and it fast and can swap other hard drives anytime without shutting down. It is remarkable, in fact am buying another one. I am using now to swap between 3T and 4T HD's.
999370
You will not be able to use the direct copy feature to do this as it requires the drives to be the same size. You can connect the device to a computer and copy the data to that first and then to the new drive.
1314549
changing the drive is easy, any SSD SATA would do. I would go about 250g or bigger if you can afford it. Don't forget to clone from the original to get all the proper drivers .
630915
This question can't be answered because it is too generic. In other words, it all comes down to what type of case or hot swap system you are using as there are different ways and methods of sliding and locking it the drives depending upon the manufacturer. You will just have to roll up your sleeps and do the research for yourself.