Considering a EX4100, quick question

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud EX Series
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Hi all,

I already own an EX2Ultra but am now considering a 4 bay NAS. My question is I have a pair of WD Red 4TB hdd’s from the original purchase. I also have 2x WD Red 10TB hdd’s. Is it possible to mix these in the EX4100 in either a 2x RAID 0 , or RAID 1 setup?

Many thanks

Fubar

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You can do 2 sets of mirroring using raid 1, one set of 4tb and the other set 10tb. If you wanted to stripe and mirror you could probably stripe using the two 4tb disks and mirror those onto the 10tb disks. I think that would be a waste though so I don’t recommend it. To mirror and stripe properly you would need 4 disks of equal size ideally. I have my own raid 1 setup, two 1tb disks and two 2tb disks.If you buy the ex4100 you can create jobs to clone the ex2 ultra data onto it, or do it the other way round as the ex4100 is a bit higher spec than the ex2 ultra.