Is the FlashStor 6 (gen 1) right for me?

[JustAsking]

I currently run a cobbled together home NAS running OMV via Debian against a RAID 6 array of 5 x 1TB PCIe G3 NVMe SSD drives. It is ONLY used as a shared drive to a couple of Windows and Ubuntu systems for file storage, photos, backups, some videos, etc. Just simple network storage.

I am "done" with my home grown solution and looking to replace it with something "commercial". From what I have seen it would appear that the FlashStor 6 would be good for my use. Yes? I want to maintain RAID 6 and want to "just see" the storage as a network drive (like I am currently able to).

If I install my existing 5 SSD, RAID 6 drive into this system, would it see it and use it? It was built under Debian. Or will I need to rebuilt it anew under the FlashStor?

I could not see any specifics as to if it is possible to start off with two SSD drives and a supported RAID level (like 1), can I migrate that to RAID 6 array once enough SSD drives have been added (i.e. start off with two, migrate my existing RAID data to the FlashStor, then once all data was across, add 4 more SSD drives to the FlashStor and convert from RAID 1 to RAID 6)?

Thanks.

[father.mande]

Hi,

On any "commercial" NAS ... the disk are formatted to a specific partition scheme ... to separate (system, swap, data (your part) ... a NAS is an embedded Linux not a standard distribution.

SO ... you can't add your disk as is ... each disk enter in the NAS is formatted and rebuild if need. ... so a backup of your data is require (or use only new SSD in new NAS and sync. after through network).

You can start with a single disk or 2 in Raid 1 or ... and migrate to larger number of drive.
... info is in Asustor college like here (search for other info) : https://www.asustor.com/online/College_topic?topic=352
... a compatibility of SSD supported ... also exist ... even it's a list of tested drive not a limited list. : https://www.asustor.com/en/service/m2ssd?id=m2ssd

Welcome on board.
Philippe.