You can get different sizes if you make it a shr raid array.
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 7:08 PM -0400, "Winterlight"
<[email protected]> wrote:
I am planning a Synology DS918+ NAS DiskStation, Diskless, 4-bay; 4GB
DDR3L purchase. I have 3 WD RED 3TB drives so I am planning on buying
another one for 12TB. They all HAVE to be the same size ...right?
90 percent of my storage needs is for my video collection .. around
3-4TB plus my video ISO collection = 1.5 TB for a total of 5 TB of
available storage. I do not need to clone these drives in a RAID as I
have both hard and off site digital backups of them and they do not
change that quickly. I don't want to consume my entire 12TB of
storage for video. So what would be the best way to handle this.. put
the video and video ISO collection on a USB3 external drive and plug
that into the NAS which would make it available to my single user
LAN? That would leave me with a great deal of storage space for
computer backups, security camera, Data that needs to be secure=
about 15 GB, media center recordings, stuff like that?
Or is there another way to do this without having to clone all the
video files all the time? I am confused.
Thanks.
