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Ahhhh Thank you. I get it now.

Thank you. Sou you are saying I would indeed have to reformat the entire thing and restore it from a back up. Personally, I would rather buy 3 6TB drives instead of 4 4TB drives at this point. I can always get another larger drive later.

Yes, but I do have a budget and thought that a 3 x 6 array, leaving one bay open for hot swap, upgrade, or another volume might be the way to go... but don't know if I can do that without restoring data from a backup.

Hi , I have a Synology DS418 4 bay NAS and I'm running out of space. My NAS is configured as in the tite, and I am considering upgrading the HDs with either 3x6TB drives, or 4x4TB drives. I know to replace 1 drive at a time and wait for the array to rebuild to replace the next. However if I go the 3x6TB route,, how does the system know I want to get rid of the 4th 1TB HD? My understanding is in a RAID 5, I will have 15 TB of unused unrecognized space in a 3 x 6TB + 1TB system. Can I create another volume with this unused space? Should I just replace the drives, reformat the entire thing and repopulate data from a backup? Thanks

Hyperbackup is included in the DSM software. Use that to back up your data like time machine does for apple on to an external HD, or a friend who might have one at their house. You can also use the disk manager software that comes with it to create 2 separate volumes, 1 for each HD

Check out Synology. I have a DS418 and it is unscalable and rated for prosumer/ small biz. They offer many products for a variety of situations. Mine is one of the smaller solutions they offer. Also, they have software to build your own mail server and application suite across platforms

I agree. I use mine to stream video, file share, mail server and more. Who needs a cloud storage subscription... if you have a friend with one you both can create privileges and folders for each other to back up data off site. You can always have your data available, whatever the format, even to your phone. There is a complete gui OS for it that is pretty good, even for a relative novice like me. I once lost all the video data taken when mt daughter was 3yrs old by knocking an external usb drive off my desk as I was copying data. I vowed that would never happen a gain.

Me too... it looks like an old "standard" password I may have used signing up for something else. The differences are that there were instructions on my letter about how to purchase bitcoin, and my email addy is a comcast.net domain