Having Different Capacity Harddrives

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

Maybe this question has been answered before but I a tried to search and couldn’t find it so here goes:

I have the Diskless version of the 4100 and have recently installed 2 WD RED 4TB in bays 1 & 2.

Q1 - Can I have different capacity drives (For eg. 6TB) in the future in slots 3 & 4 and run all of these together?

Thanks in Advance for any responses.

Regards

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Hi, you should be able to run different capacity drives on the EX4100, this can be accomplished by several mean.

  • Create a RAID with the drives of the same size. Ex: RAID 1 or RAID 0 with the 4 TB, and RAID 1 or RAID 0 with the 6 TB.

  • Use as a JBOD enclosure and use each drive independently.

  • Create a RAID with the drive of the same size and use the the with different size in JBOD.

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Same question I had, but no one mentions RAID 10. Is this useful for two 4TB and two 6 TB disks to make the storage a total of 10TB?