Help with adding new drive to EX2

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud EX2
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I just ordered a 3TB WD Red from Amazon to put into my WD EX2 at home. I currently have a 2TB WD Red in there now. I’ve used about 1TB of space already. My question is this:

Will I have to do anything special in terms of making sure that the new drive installs correctly? I would like to have both drives be read as one massive 5TB drive but I’m worried that I will have to format my existing drive and erase all of my data first. Is this the case or will I everything be fine?

Thanks

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Hi, unfortunately what you are trying it will not work, the RAID modes in the EX 2 need to have same size drives, you will need to have them in JBOD. You will need to make sure that you select which volume you are creating the shares.

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Ok so if I leave the RAID configuration as JBOD, will I run into any issues?

Thanks

Kyle Jones

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You shouldn’t have any issues with different drive size in JBOD.