I have two Synology NAS’s. A monster 920 with 10TB across 4 drives used for all my work stuff, including running a couple of VMs.
It “replaced” my older 218j+ which is a 2 bay drive with 2×3.6TB WD drives configured in SHR-1 (so mirror). Stores lots of static data including a lot of video renders and imovie libs. It’s running out of space. Synology tell me I can buy a new 2x8TB drives and insert them 1×1 to increase the storage pool without losing any data:
This all sounds too good to be true. I *could* back it up to the big NAS except I don’t have quite enough space left to do that, and it’d be a pain to free it up (ie messing about with my stack of external HDDs). I’m going to stick with HDDs as no requirement for faster speeds as it’s just a repository really for stuff i might need and have no space for on the Mac.
Having done some research: https://www.ballicom.co.uk/not-assigned-hat3310-8t-.p1592363.html – these drives get some love and seem a decent compromise between capacity and cost.
Anyone done something similar? Any other way round that either risking it or backing up the whole shebang before adding new drives?