NAS Upgrade Question

[Fyfey96]

Hello,

I have a 2 Bay Synology NAS and both drives are RAID 1. so I have 3TB of storage. If i ever wanted to increase this and get a 4-Bay NAS would i be able to move my two drives over and keep the array and have another two drives in raid 1 so i have 6 TB all in the one unit or would i be easier to just get another NAS like the one I have. Thanks.

[Speakerator]

That depends on what unit you get. Might be possible with something like a 416. But with more than 2 drives you'd also be able to do something like a RAID5 or RAID 10 and loose less of your space to parities / redundancy while keeping a similar level of safety. To be fair, I don't recall all the details (which is a shame, since if studied this Sh!t..), but you can read up all the details on Wikipedia. Synology does list all the possible "upgrade paths" for its systems on its website.

[Pixel5]

did you actually configure them as a real raid1 or did you use the synology hybrid raid ?

 

if you used SHR you could just move the drives to a 4 bay nas, add more drives and it would just extended the raid by whatever you have added depending on what is possible with your drive configuration.

 

you can check out their website to see what you can do by using the raid configurator.

[Speakerator]

https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/compare/DS416play/DS416/DS416j

 

Look at the Section "Raid Migration" and check for other 4-bay NAS. I'm searching for a NAS myself and guess I'll go for a 4 bay with initial 2 drive config in RAID 1 and extend that to a RAID5 once it gets to small.

[Fyfey96]

2 hours ago, Pixel5 said:

did you actually configure them as a real raid1 or did you use the synology hybrid raid ?

 

if you used SHR you could just move the drives to a 4 bay nas, add more drives and it would just extended the raid by whatever you have added depending on what is possible with your drive configuration.

 

you can check out their website to see what you can do by using the raid configurator.

Yes its configured in SHR.

 

1 hour ago, Speakerator said:

https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/compare/DS416play/DS416/DS416j

 

Look at the Section "Raid Migration" and check for other 4-bay NAS. I'm searching for a NAS myself and guess I'll go for a 4 bay with initial 2 drive config in RAID 1 and extend that to a RAID5 once it gets to small.

Thats cool. I would probably be looking at them as i Have the DS216+II at  the moment