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by **Ryssen** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:59 am

My 219+ has one disk now but what happens if I add another disk?I will not be using any raid,will I have to make new install or will it just add the disk to the existing?

by **xavierh** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:06 am

If you are not going to use aid en it should not be an issue. I believe your device also supports online raid expansion if ypu wanted to go that route too

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by **QNAPJason** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:53 am

Hi Ryssen,
You can add the 2nd new HDD as a new single disk and then setup new shares on it for data storage or file sharing (if you do not want to upgrade to RAID 1).

by **Ryssen** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:11 pm

the 2nd new HDD as a new single disk and then setup new shares on it for data storage or file sharing

Ok,do I make any changes in the software then.

Edit:I see theres 2 diffrence choises,JBOD and single disk value.Whats the difference on theme?

by **P3R** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:15 am

JBOD ties the two disks together so it appears to be one data volume with the size of the two disks combined.

Single disk is self explanatory. Two single disks will give you two separate volumes of data.

It's also described in the documentation.
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by **Ryssen** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:50 am

Ok,thaks for the answers.
Does the 219+ bennefit with the speed increasethat raid gives?.And is it safe to run raid ,I hear about crashes...

by **xavierh** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 5:27 am

Ryssen wrote:Ok,thaks for the answers.
Does the 219+ bennefit with the speed increasethat raid gives?.And is it safe to run raid ,I hear about crashes...

speed (writing) will take a hit in raid 1 because the information has to be written in both discs. what raid 1 gives you is availability meaning that if one this goes down, you can still access your data. but raid 1 is not a substitute for a good backup strategy.

by **JayBee66** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:04 pm

I have a 219+ too and bought a second drive today.

Will I lose data on the first hard drive if I set the system up as a RAID 0 or single hard drive?

by **Ryssen** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:54 pm

Yes all data will eraise when creating a RAID.So it´s best to make a backup of the data you want to keep.

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