Hello all. I currently have a WD My Cloud single drive NAS and I’m going to upgrade to a Synology NAS, most likely a 2 bay one, and have a question I’m trying to find the answer for.
Let’s say I buy the NAS and one 4tb NAS drive to start with but later on decide to stick an 8tb NAS drive into the second bay what will happen? From a few YouTube videos I’ve seen, based on Synology 4 bay NAS with at least 2 bays populated already, running Synology’s SHR in raid 1, adding a larger drive gave more storage space with backup (I think). As 1 disc isn’t a raid, as far as my limited understanding believes, what would happen when I put the larger drive in?
I’m just trying to work out if I potentially wipe the existing drive if a raid 1 is created, if it creates the shr raid 1 without losing data or if it’s something else completely. I’m relatively newish to this side of computing.
Cheers for any help you can give me.
Let’s say I buy the NAS and one 4tb NAS drive to start with but later on decide to stick an 8tb NAS drive into the second bay what will happen? From a few YouTube videos I’ve seen, based on Synology 4 bay NAS with at least 2 bays populated already, running Synology’s SHR in raid 1, adding a larger drive gave more storage space with backup (I think). As 1 disc isn’t a raid, as far as my limited understanding believes, what would happen when I put the larger drive in?
I’m just trying to work out if I potentially wipe the existing drive if a raid 1 is created, if it creates the shr raid 1 without losing data or if it’s something else completely. I’m relatively newish to this side of computing.
Cheers for any help you can give me.