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I'm having a problem trying to set up a hot spare drive in my F5-221 NAS. Here is the situation: the F5-221 currently a four 5TB drives in a Raid 5 configuration. It is running Plex Media Server as the only application and is performing very well. When ever I try to add a fifth drive to the NAS I ge...

Following up on my previous question about a "hot spare" drive. Is it necessary to power down the F5-221 before adding the 5th drive (which will be the hot spare) or can the drive be added while the F5-221 is running??

Thank you . . .

Thank you . . .

I recently have moved from having Plex Media Server running on a F4-220 to a F5-221. I simply moved the 4 hard drives from the F4 to the F5 and everything is running great. I am now considering taking advantage of the one empty drive slot in the F5-221 by using it for a "Hot Spare" drive. ...

Just updated my F2-220. No problems no far - update went smooth. Got the NAS set up a JBOD for my media backups. Running Docker with a PiHole container. All good so far . . .

Thank you for your quick response . . . .

I currently am using a Terra-Master F4-220 NAS as my Plex server. It has functioned without any problems for at least one year. I have 4 5TB drives in it in a Raid 5 configuration using EXT4 format. It looks like I will need to expand my storage pool soon and I was thinking of getting a F5-221 plus ...

The version of Plex in the Terra-Master Applications store is way out of date. You can download the latest version (1.26) directly from the Plex website at: https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/ First make sure you choose "TerraMaster" then choose the correct version for your NAS - e...

Updated my F2-220. Update went smoothly and, so far, no problems. Am running Docker (PiHole in a container), Tautulli, and Sonarr.

Since this version TOS version is not yet available for download from the Terra-Master website, how about a download link here so users who want to manually update can . . .