Can I use two 4TB drives to start with a basic data backup setup, and add an additional drive at a time, to keep this a bit more affordable?
1476792
You can, just make sure when u make changes back up your data first..... You can loose it, upon moving from say Raid 0 to Raid 5.
1476793
depend on yore RAID, can be done using JBOD if you use RAID0 to RAID5 every drive/s you add will have to be its own RAID
1476794
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.
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.
1476796
Yes, that will work just fine. I added drives after I started everything to make the startup price not as bad.
1905073
You can fill as few as 2 slots (using one drive as a redundant drive) and leave the rest open for later use. I initially loaded 6 slots with drives and allowed the NAS to test all 6 drives. I them removed 2 drives and keep them as backups. I now have 4 3TB drives installed and running just fine configured as one volume.
1236892
It's best to get this NAS it's own set of drives. The point of this NAS is to RAID the drives to protect against failures, swapping drives won't work as you'll just be constantly rebuilding the array. I suppose you could just have 1 drive and move it back and forth between two of these NAS units, but what would be the point there?
1676491
I'm afraid so. One drive will work; I'm using two. Even for a "newbie" it's pretty easy to set up, and they're very good about answering questions.
1712093
I haven't yet tried a 4TB drive, but I have used a 3TB drive with NTFS formatting with no problems.
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.
59623
Yes. That's what I use them for. I have 3 of these with 4 TB Backup Plus drives.
1905077
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.
489485
I would guess with about 99.998% certainty....no. You will need to back up those drives. I'd say preferrably, you will buy all new drives for this or any NAS enclosure you're setting up. HTH.
912012
You can configure the drive to be either 4 TB or 8 TB. The device itself only contains two 4TB drives.
912011
Two 4TB drives. You can configure it to mirror those two 4TB, split it so parts if each file could end up on both drives (makes it very fast, but vunerable to corruption if either one fails), or separately to use them as two unique 4 TB drives for a total of 8TB.
200504
Sure. But if you are backing-up your OS, you should be doing that to a second physical internal hard drive.
800516
Can you run RAID that way? Id like to install 2 2TB drives, for large capacity RAID.
1593493
Yes. I have had a computer had a 500GB plus a 1.5TB. And another with 2 SSDs which are relatively small volume and a 2TB HD. As long as you have the power and connectors you are free to add in as many of any size as you want.
378109
Yes, you can mix different drives up to 4TB in size each for a total of 32TB.
1387523
I have a 2TB drive in mine. But with prices and for redundancy I would recommend dual 1 TB drives
843170
You can start with two drives and expand it as you get more drives. Furthermore if all bays are full then you can replace older smaller drives with bigger newer drives without losing any data.