Upgrading storage capacity

[Frostimania]

I'll be starting with a capacity of 6tb. If I want to increase the capacity down the road by swapping both drives to a higher cap. What would the process be. Will pulling both drives if I don't want data to transfer to new drives be stored on both the main and backup?

[arvinpw]

If you want to increase your drives capacity, ideally just adding another drive with same capacity as older drive. In order to do of that, the initial setup must at least 3 drives.

But if you do want to swapping old drive with the new one, you can do that by swapping one by one. It will be a long and tedious process, but can be done.

[Frostimania]

1 hour ago, arvinpw said:

If you want to increase your drives capacity, ideally just adding another drive with same capacity as older drive. In order to do of that, the initial setup must at least 3 drives.

But if you do want to swapping old drive with the new one, you can do that by swapping one by one. It will be a long and tedious process, but can be done.

I'll technically have 3 drives I think. 1 256 to 500gb running os and then 2 6tb for storage. That should allow the expandability if my understanding is correct

[Almeda]

1 hour ago, Frostimania said:

I'll technically have 3 drives I think. 1 256 to 500gb running os and then 2 6tb for storage. That should allow the expandability if my understanding is correct

No, your pool needs 3 drives. 3x 6TB would allow for expandability

Edited December 2, 2024 by Almeda

[frantiseksram]

I don't think the drive with bootable OS counts towards the prefered 3 drived. It would leave you with two drives in storage pool and they'd just be a mirror copy to each other. I'm reading this becomes non-expandable.

[Frostimania]

5 hours ago, Almeda said:

No, your pool needs 3 drives. 3x 6TB would allow for expandability

So start with 3 HDDs and the I can add 1 at a time or is it better to do 2 st a time and keep it odd numbers

[frantiseksram]

13 hours ago, Frostimania said:

So start with 3 HDDs and the I can add 1 at a time or is it better to do 2 st a time and keep it odd numbers

Start with 3 HDD for sure. Can have more if you like. I think they said on their website up to 8 HDD, so don't buy too many 😄

[SyberSects]

I'm curious on this topic. if I started with 3tb drives. Could I easily upgrade to larger capacities later? I assume you cant mix and match as the smallest would be used? If I added 6tb drives and slowly swapped out. would it automatically change to 6tb disk usage after the last 3tb was replaced?

[frantiseksram]

Just now, SyberSects said:

I'm curious on this topic. if I started with 3tb drives. Could I easily upgrade to larger capacities later? I assume you cant mix and match as the smallest would be used? If I added 6tb drives and slowly swapped out. would it automatically change to 6tb disk usage after the last 3tb was replaced?

That's my understanding too. Say you got 3 small drives, buy 3 large drives, pull one small out, one big in, let it rebuild, pull second small, insert second large, let it rebuild, then do the last one. Might be safer to buy fewer and bigger drives to start with, and later just expand with adding same capacity drives.

[perplexed3006]

10 hours ago, SyberSects said:

I'm curious on this topic. if I started with 3tb drives. Could I easily upgrade to larger capacities later? I assume you cant mix and match as the smallest would be used? If I added 6tb drives and slowly swapped out. would it automatically change to 6tb disk usage after the last 3tb was replaced?

That is what is says in the FAQ