Good evening all,
I am looking into upgrading my Synology DS215J and wanting a 4 bay and something that is good at transcoding for my PLEX setup.
I love the look of this AS5304T unit and can see that other similar spec NAS boxes from QNAP and Synology have the simple ability to increase from 2 drives and expand the Raid to Raid 5 with a simple migrate task in there device software.
Is this also possible on this one?
I can really afford to buy 4 drives so want to start new with 2 and increase over time?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This is where I read on the others.... https://nascompares.com/possible-having ... d-another/
Thanks
Justin
Wanting to know if I can start with 2 drives in AS5304T
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Re: Wanting to know if I can start with 2 drives in AS5304T
Yes you can see here https://www.asustor.com/en-gb/online/Co ... ?topic=352
AS5304T - 16GB DDR4 - ADM-OS modded on 2GB RAM
Internal:
- 4x10TB Toshiba RAID10 Ext4-Journal=Off
External 5 Bay USB3:
- 4x2TB Seagate modded RAID0 Btrfs-Compression
- 480GB Intel SSD for modded dm-cache (initramfs auto update patch) and Apps
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Internal:
- 4x10TB Toshiba RAID10 Ext4-Journal=Off
External 5 Bay USB3:
- 4x2TB Seagate modded RAID0 Btrfs-Compression
- 480GB Intel SSD for modded dm-cache (initramfs auto update patch) and Apps
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Re: Wanting to know if I can start with 2 drives in AS5304T
Is Snapshots supported on a 2 disk Mirror 1 set? Or does it require a Raid5 setup or better? I've purchased 2 12TB Ironwolf drives for a SBC setup but it isn't working out. Am looking to replace it with a AS5304T and adding additional drives in the future.
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Re: Wanting to know if I can start with 2 drives in AS5304T
I have snapshots working fine with a 2 disk RAID1 Btrfs AS3102T
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Re: Wanting to know if I can start with 2 drives in AS5304T
Thanks for the confirmation.