Your instructional video is awesome, it was detailed oriented and it didn’t skip any step in the process of expanding and upgrading storage on the QNAS (thank you!) Keep doing your videos in this way and please don’t change your detailed oriented style 👌..(You Sir you have a new subscriber!)👍
So I am a bit confused. Did you have to format all your drives / back up data before doing this? Or does it retain the data that is on the disks throughout the process?
RAID 5 has data redundancy. This means that data is not lost if just one drive in the array is removed or fails. You simply insert a new drive and the array will rebuild the data that was on that drive. No prior backups necessary. After the array finishes rebuilding the data on the new drive, you simply find all your data the exact same way as before.
As Nils described, by changing disks one by one, you are giving the QNAP NAS the chance to rebuild the RAID array redundancy one disk at a time, so the expansion retains the data on the disks as long as you follow the steps on replacing the disks one-by-one
do you have to upgrade all drives at the same time, or can you upgrade say only half. My Qnap is 6 bays with 1TB drives in each, and i would like to expand the size. I have three, 10TB drives ready. can i upgrade the 3 now and do the other 3 at a later point?
If you are using a classic RAID structure like RAID 5,6,10 you will have to upgrade all of them, regardless of the type of NAS. This is due to how RAID data is stored, the structure on classic RAID levels require that all hard drives have the same size.
Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you! Now I just hope I can do this on my Terramaster NAS.
Your instructional video is awesome, it was detailed oriented and it didn’t skip any step in the process of expanding and upgrading storage on the QNAS (thank you!) Keep doing your videos in this way and please don’t change your detailed oriented style 👌..(You Sir you have a new subscriber!)👍
Good video, displaying the current date/time was a nice touch. Thanks for the video!
Welcome :)
You are a nice guy!
oui!
Great instructional video, thank you. How long does it take to rebuild 1 drive, and hence the entire process?
Hi, nice video! Can I use 3 hdds in raid 5 and later add another one for expansion of the storage? Is that going to work? Thanks
Yes you can expand the pool by adding a disk to raid 5. There is a howto on qnap's website. You won't lose your data.
Also, raid 5 works with 3 drives, correct, so you can start with 3.
So I am a bit confused. Did you have to format all your drives / back up data before doing this? Or does it retain the data that is on the disks throughout the process?
RAID 5 has data redundancy. This means that data is not lost if just one drive in the array is removed or fails. You simply insert a new drive and the array will rebuild the data that was on that drive. No prior backups necessary. After the array finishes rebuilding the data on the new drive, you simply find all your data the exact same way as before.
As Nils described, by changing disks one by one, you are giving the QNAP NAS the chance to rebuild the RAID array redundancy one disk at a time, so the expansion retains the data on the disks as long as you follow the steps on replacing the disks one-by-one
Amazing Video!!
Thank u !
Yep
Loving this❤
Blondes are amazing!
Initial Array had random drives? Allows storage to go over 80%? This causes file fragmentation and extremely degraded performance.
Wow! Anybody know if I can do this on my Terramaster NAS (raid 5)?
Superb!
Thank you, my pleasure !
Nice video, sadly there were some sound issues in parts of it but otherwise good
Howdy. I've got a TS-459 Pro II. Having a tough time finding info. Do you think I could put 5x 4tb drives in that?
Most likely no, that model takes 4 hard drives max
do you have to upgrade all drives at the same time, or can you upgrade say only half.
My Qnap is 6 bays with 1TB drives in each, and i would like to expand the size. I have three, 10TB drives ready. can i upgrade the 3 now and do the other 3 at a later point?
If you are using a classic RAID structure like RAID 5,6,10 you will have to upgrade all of them, regardless of the type of NAS. This is due to how RAID data is stored, the structure on classic RAID levels require that all hard drives have the same size.
@@CubanHacker I see thanks
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I see, yes my NAS is a 6 Bay, 4TB each RAID 6 Configuration. Ill be upgrading the drives to 10TB each.
thanks for the input.
thats it thanx
Thank you !