Hello All,
I currently have a Synology 1815+ with 5 6tb drives and an ssd cache. I'm running Synologies Hybrid raid with 1 disc redundancy and I need to expand my storage.
14tb Exos drives are very attractive right now, but I don't want to have to buy 5 of them all at once. If I just add a 14tb drive, it will only use 6tb of the capacity to not mess up the raid array. I get this, but if over time I upgrade all the drives to 14tb, how would I tell the raid to use 14tb per drive and not just 6tb?
Second question, the Synology 1821+ uses ECC ram. Is it required to use ECC ram? or can I skimp out on non-ecc ram? I am basically using it as a plex and home backup server, so nothing is mission critical to actually need ecc ram.