Can I mount 2 bays with different size storage. Like 1TB or 2TB in 1bay and 3 TB in another? Or 2 bays have to be the same size?
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The answer is rather involved, I'll try to put it simply but others may give better details. This is something I researched before my purchase. The whole thing depends on what you are wanting to do with your QNAP. If you're looking for double redundant backup, like myself, then then the answer is YES, BUT... it will recognize and configure them as if they were equal in size ( equal to the smallest drive) and you will lose the use of the rest of the space. Or you can configure them as one big drive or to be used sequentially and get full use of your space but you will not have double redundancy. And I believe if you set up as one big drive and one of your drives go bad... you lose data on both. I would suggest reading up on the differences between the different raid configurations before purchasing the drives to insure you get what you want out of it. Additionally if you go for the double redundancy install both drives at once. You can start with one and add one later but migration can take DAYS to complete and a fresh install and setup only takes a few minutes. Browsing the QNAP fourms is very enlightening if you have the time. ALL in ALL I am very happy with mine although I did have to learn a few things as I got familiar with setting it up. Hope this helps
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This device will neither allow or disallow that. This converter will merely allow you to mount 2 drives in one bay. If your motherboard has RAID capabilities then yes, you can configure 2 drives as one.
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Yes, I use only two bays right now for my business. It's designed for this. I had a ReadyNAS before and this is 1000x better.
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I think it might be difficult to have two 3.5 drives in this case. I have one 3.5" 3TB Drive and two 2.5" drives. One is the boot SSD and the second is a notebook drive. The 2.5" drives are sitting where the DID would go which I don't have installed.
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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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I just wanted to add that RAID 1 means 2 3TB drives will show up as 3TB (not 6TB) as it is a "mirrored" solution (and what I would recommend). So the MAX capacity in that set up is 4TB.
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No, I am using it in a non-raid setup. I did try to use it with a 2 TB drive as a 4th drive. It didn't work. I then put a 500 MB drive on it and it worked. I put the 2 TB directly on a standard sata port.
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Yes the software allows different configurations of RAID or independent configurations. I current have 2 4tb velo drives and they are configured as two individual drives. This is accomplished by selecting flex-Raid and not X- Raid during the setup process.
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Comes with 2x2 TB drives. So, default RAID 1 would give you approximately 2 TB of usable space. This allows for one of the drives to fully fail and you lose nothing. Just have to replace the bad drive to retain redundancy.
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This something I do not know.. I have 2 x 2TB in mine set up as Raid 1 so they image each other. I also received my first one that was defective, but after using Zyxel's RMA and replacement under warranty, the second one I received is working fine.
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While I have not tried a 3TB hard drive in this device I have used it with a 2TB drive and see no reason why a 3TB wouldn't work!
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There are 4 drive bays. I haven't done so, but I understand you can rig the DVD slot for an additional drive. I have already added USB external without a problem. As far as the larger that 2TB drives - sorry, I haven't tried that. I'm running two small drives to handle the OS in a RAID configuration and 2-2TB drives in a RAID for everything else. Just haven't had a reason to upgrade beyond 2TB yet.
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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 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.
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Yes. You can eventually fill up to a maximum of 8 drive bays but no more after filling all 8 bays. After that, if you want, you can buy another Synology NAS of equal or larger capacity than the DS1812+ and you can back-up your original eight bay DS1812+ to your new DS1812+ .This is common practice in IT, because even awesome multi-bay servers can FRY just like all other electronic devices.
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The drives can be different sizes, but if you want the redundancy of the Raid architecture they should be the same size. You can run them as standalone non-raid drives and then they can be different sizes. SATA drives are required.
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2x 2tb should work fine but I have 1x 1tb and 1x 2tb in jbod mode and works great