I bought one of these and now I’m unclear what I should be doing regarding RAID. Can I not add drives later?

I’m not sure if I’m looking at old data but I’m starting to feel stupid. I’m not super tech literate but I’m typically above average. Also a lot of doom and gloom telling me redundancy isn’t a backup like I don’t already know.

It’s still in box and considering returning it.

Any advice? Sorry for the vague question.

  • Chup@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You can add drives later and you can also change the RAID type later when adding a drive.

    Online RAID Level Migration supports the following RAID migrations:

    Single drive to RAID 1

    RAID 1 to RAID 5

    RAID 5 to RAID 6

    But you can only migrate to a different RAID within that scheme when adding 1 drive, as the new drive will be used to create that new RAID level. Changing the RAID type otherwise will require making every fresh and all data will be removed.

    QNAP HowTo: https://www.qnap.com/en/how-to/tutorial/article/online-raid-level-migration