Can I replace drives as I need more storage (i.e. swap out the 4 tb drive for a 6tb when needed)?
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Eric:I returned my two brandnew units because I could get no support from the company.Ralph
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Yes. Drives are hot-swappable, so you can replace them (one at a time) without even turning off the unit or losing access to your data. Time for new drives to stripe depends on size and amount of data on drive.
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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.
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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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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.
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Yes. I currently am using 2 HDD's for total redundancy of my data so 2 4tb drives only provide 4tb of data storage. I am using a 3rd 4tb HDD to automatically backup the data. In the future if I add 2 more 4tb drives I could double the capacity of both the online storage and backup capacity.
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Doable, but stock drive probably has stuff you'd want to mirror to the replacement drive for that to work correctly.
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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
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Go to their website. They have setups to build your own... this one is already setup. And yes, I believe they are replaceable. But why buy this model to just replace with bigger drives when they already sell 1, bigger drives and 2, setups to build your own...
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I haven't yet tried a 4TB drive, but I have used a 3TB drive with NTFS formatting with no problems.
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There is no space for a spare drive. You can replace with a SSD like I did but that's it. Just use the USB 3.0 with an external drive.
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yes upgrade to 8g instead of 6 I would also replace hd with ssd...for super fast...
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yes the drive is replaceable. I purchased my hub as a refurb with no drive. I first used a 500Gb drive then upgraded to a 1 Tb drive (WD of course). The firmware is not on the drive so just install and format using the utility in the setup menu. I am not sure of the largest size drive you can add. I think probably 1.5TB, 2TB at the most. You can also use an external USB drive at the same time. The system can get a bit temperamental when you add too many movies on too many drives because the library gets very large. Also it takes a long time to recompile the library after the unit is unplugged. If you use the hub as a mobile unit (take it with you) turn off the auto library feature in the setup. yes the drive is replaceable. I purchased my hub as a refurb with no drive. I first used a 500Gb drive then upgraded to a 1 Tb drive (WD of course). The firmware is not on the drive so just install and format using the utility in the setup menu. I am not sure of the largest size drive you can add. I think probably 1.5TB, 2TB at the most. You can also use an external USB drive at the same time. The system can get a bit temperamental when you add too many movies on too many drives because the library gets very large. Also it takes a long time to recompile the library after the unit is... » Read More yes the drive is replaceable. I purchased my hub as a refurb with no drive. I first used a 500Gb drive then upgraded to a 1 Tb drive (WD of course). The firmware is not on the drive so just install and format using the utility in the setup menu. I am not sure of the largest size drive you can add. I think probably 1.5TB, 2TB at the most. You can also use an external USB drive at the same time. The system can get a bit temperamental when you add too many movies on too many drives because the library gets very large. Also it takes a long time to recompile the library after the unit is unplugged. If you use the hub as a mobile unit (take it with you) turn off the auto library feature in the setup. « Show Less
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William,Yes you can, the diskless EX4 through the 16 TB EX 4 cases/software are all the same and will accept the WD 4TB drives
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Absolutely. I installed a 2TB drive in mine 6 months ago. Works like a charm.
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You can not actually add additional hard drive, but you could replace the original with new one has more capacity.I would suggest to use external hard drive.
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Yes, I did end up replacing our hard drive and it worked seamlessly! I got the WD 1TB sata II 7200 rpm 8 mb unit. (Wd10jpvt) It looks cheaper now too by about $30!I now have a lot more room and the laptop speed is back up to normal now. I also got the vantec nexstar tx 2.5 sata to usb external he enclosure and definitely nice! Well built and solid!
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No. I believe you can purchase an adapter for the optical drive location and place a second HDD in there. This will replace your current optical drive of course, so you would have to decide if that's something you can live without or you could purchase an external optical drive.
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im not sure. the way i figured it out was watching youtube videos. i know there is an easy way to tell which drive you need, but i can't remember. good luck. also i know that the is a piece of the old drive you will need to unsolder from the original and solder into the new unit.