Replacing a drive in a 419p

[mercerm]

I have a 419p with 4 2tb drives running raid5 in it. I have a bad drive that i need replace. Can i replace it with a 3tb drive without messing up the raid? If so any suggestions on which drive to get?

Thanks in advance!

[P3R]

Yes you can but you won't be able to use the additional 1 TB until all disks in the RAID 5-volume are 3 TB. Remember that: The storage capacity of a RAID 5 array is equal to (N-1) * (size of smallest hard drive). N is the number of hard drives in the array.

Any disk that is on the Qnap disk compatibility list for your NAS model should be okay. Personally I prefer Hitachi as I think they've had the best track record for compatibility over the last couple of years.