Synology RAID with different size HDD

Synology RAID with different size HDD

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.Adam.

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Saturday 26th May 2018
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I've had a DS212j for a few years with one 1tb HDD, and would like to add another and mirror it. I understand that you can use different size HDD, so was planning on adding a 2tb to it to mirror. I realise that all the time I have the 1tb drive in the system then I will only be able to use 1tb of the larger HDD.
I was planning that in the future when I have used the 1tb capacity I will swap the smaller drive for a larger one, but can I then use the full capacity of the 2tb that has been running at 1tb for a while, or would it need to be reformated?

legzr1

3,848 posts

139 months

Saturday 26th May 2018
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What you’re plannimg should work fine.

.Adam.

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Saturday 26th May 2018
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That's great, thanks.