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Just to confirm, all shared folders have read access set up for user "plex". There is also a "plex" folder (created during the plex install) where user plex has full control.
FYI...
DSM 7.0 just dropped from Synology. It looks like a substantial update.
https://www.windowscentral.com/synology-dsm-7
Yeah, you can do one by one, at least I filled my 8 bay that way because 10 and 12tb are not cheap.Question for the Synology folks...
I'm running SHR with 2-drive fault tolerance in an 8-bay unit.
My old drives from my 4-bay are 6TB.
I've been filling the empty bays with 8TB drives.
I eventually want to go back and upgrade the 6TB drives to 8TB drives... can I do this one by one? Or does it need to be in sets of 2?
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Yeah, you can do one by one, at least I filled my 8 bay that way because 10 and 12tb are not cheap.
Its something like that, if I remember right. Synology I believe has a drive calculator too somewhere on their site where you can fill in what drives you have and are going to add to show how it all works. I think my above statement is true but better double check to be sure.OK... cool.
But the NAS/RAID won't recognize the increased capacity until at least 2-bays are equal size, is that correct? If there's an odd number of storage devices, it defaults to the lower capacity or something per set of 2. I feel like I read that somewhere. Or am I wrong on this?
FYI...
DSM 7.0 just dropped from Synology. It looks like a substantial update.
https://www.windowscentral.com/synology-dsm-7
Its something like that, if I remember right. Synology I believe has a drive calculator too somewhere on their site where you can fill in what drives you have and are going to add to show how it all works. I think my above statement is true but better double check to be sure.
Check this out... https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/RAID_calculator?hdds=10 TB
Yeah, for sure. The initial plunge into a NAS was quite expensive at the time. I have a 1817+ and I bought the unit and four 10tb IronWolf HDDs. Shit was expensive, cost me like $2500 to get it all going in SHR2. I slowly added a drive at a time afterwards.Oooo I forgot about that link. Thanks!
Yea... looks like I need to do blocks of 2 on the old drives (to realize the capacity increase). But it's nice knowing I can do it a drive at a time, over time.
Keep in mind one thing though. Every time you expand an existing array with a new drive or by swapping a smaller for a larger, it's going to take a very long time (talk 2-figure hours) to reorganize all the data.Oooo I forgot about that link. Thanks!
Yea... looks like I need to do blocks of 2 on the old drives (to realize the capacity increase). But it's nice knowing I can do it a drive at a time, over time.
Keep in mind one thing though. Every time you expand an existing array with a new drive or by swapping a smaller for a larger, it's going to take a very long time (talk 2-figure hours) to reorganize all the data.
And during this time frame, the data on the NAS is extremely vulnerable! Doesn't matter at all what kind of RAID you have set up - it won't help you in such a case. The RAID will only be of help during normal operation when a drive fails. Not during expansion/reshaping. Do not do this under any circumstances without having made a full backup of the NAS' contents to some other storage first. You cannot pause this process, and if it is forcibly "paused" (like after a power outage) you cannot resume it. You will lose access to your files on that RAID.
This, in combination with impatience, is what made me break the RAID on my NAS at the beginning of last year, when I then was 4 months without access to the files on it and paid well over €4k to a specialized data recovery company to get the data out.