Is It Possible To Add Single Drive as a Continuation Of Previous Drive

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petera209
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Is It Possible To Add Single Drive as a Continuation Of Previous Drive

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I have the F4-210 and when I set it up I only added one 16TB drive so I configured it as a Single Drive. Today I am adding a second drive and I was wondering if it is possible to configure it as additional storage to the first drive, so that when I add new files I am only dealing with the original drive folders and not a completely new set of folders on the second drive.
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Re: Is It Possible To Add Single Drive as a Continuation Of Previous Drive

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Single drive could be migrated to RAID1 without losing data in the existing Single drive. And you can add new files only dealing with the original drive folders and not a completely new set of folders on the second drive.
If you want to configure other RAID mode with the new added drive, the data in Single would be erased.
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Re: Is It Possible To Add Single Drive as a Continuation Of Previous Drive

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What if I do not want a RAID 1.
I have 4TB currently and want to add the second 4TB. But I want 8TB of storage, not a RAID 1 array.
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Re: Is It Possible To Add Single Drive as a Continuation Of Previous Drive

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You can configure them as RAID0 or JBOD, the two HDDs will be a storage pool with total capacity as 8TB. But the data would be erased, you have to backup your data prior to RAID migration.
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