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I'm looking to replace my current HP Microserver with a Synology but have a few questions about features/adding drives.
First off I understand some models have '4k transcoding' does anyone have experience with this? The microserver is far to weak for anything similar but was hoping with the synology I could use plex and stream media from the NAS to wherever I am, Is this possible?
Secondly I currently have 4 drives in my HP server and wouldn't mind re-using some of those drives but I'm not sure how the Synology OS handles adding new drives and pooling:
If I bought a 4 bay model and put in two of the disk I already have can I mirror those for redundancy? At a later date can I add another pool by adding more drives?
The scenario would be:
1. have two drives mirrored.
2. Add a third drive with a non mirrored second pool.
3. Add a fourth drive to increase the second pool size.
I am not too bothered about redundancy as most of my critical data is in 2 or 3 cloud services so I could just go for a two drive enclosure. Am I able to start out with one drive and then upgrade the storage with two drives without mirroring?
First off I understand some models have '4k transcoding' does anyone have experience with this? The microserver is far to weak for anything similar but was hoping with the synology I could use plex and stream media from the NAS to wherever I am, Is this possible?
Secondly I currently have 4 drives in my HP server and wouldn't mind re-using some of those drives but I'm not sure how the Synology OS handles adding new drives and pooling:
If I bought a 4 bay model and put in two of the disk I already have can I mirror those for redundancy? At a later date can I add another pool by adding more drives?
The scenario would be:
1. have two drives mirrored.
2. Add a third drive with a non mirrored second pool.
3. Add a fourth drive to increase the second pool size.
I am not too bothered about redundancy as most of my critical data is in 2 or 3 cloud services so I could just go for a two drive enclosure. Am I able to start out with one drive and then upgrade the storage with two drives without mirroring?