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Synology drives question

9 10 November 25, 2021 at 08:02 AM
I have 2 Western Digital NAS drives. 8GB and 12 GB,

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Can I shuck the hard drives and install both of them in the Synology DS220+ listed on the SD front page. Would I have a single 20GB NAS storage device after installing both drives?

Or would I have 2 NAS drives #1 8GB and #2 12GB located on the same network IP address.

Or can I NOT put both drives in the Synology NAS Storage device and use them at all.

I don't want to RAID these drives. This data isn't important enough for that.

Thanks in advance.
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Sarnsung
11-25-2021 at 08:15 AM.
11-25-2021 at 08:15 AM.
Yes, google those specific drives to make sure they are shuckable first. But you would be able to store it raw like that without RAID.

Make sure the select the correct configuration on setup.
It should combine the storage, using RAID0

https://www.synology.com/en-us/su...calculator
^ You can use that to check your configurations and see if it works out
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sam.willow
11-26-2021 at 08:01 AM.
11-26-2021 at 08:01 AM.
Quote from Sarnsung :
Yes, google those specific drives to make sure they are shuckable first. But you would be able to store it raw like that without RAID.

Make sure the select the correct configuration on setup.
It should combine the storage, using RAID0

https://www.synology.com/en-us/su...calculator
^ You can use that to check your configurations and see if it works out
Exactly the info I searched for but could not find.
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dakinathon
11-27-2021 at 04:35 AM.
11-27-2021 at 04:35 AM.
Quote from dakinathon :
I have 2 Western Digital NAS drives. 8GB and 12 GB,

Question:
Can I shuck the hard drives and install both of them in the Synology DS220+ listed on the SD front page. Would I have a single 20GB NAS storage device after installing both drives?

Or would I have 2 NAS drives #1 8GB and #2 12GB located on the same network IP address.

Or can I NOT put both drives in the Synology NAS Storage device and use them at all.

I don't want to RAID these drives. This data isn't important enough for that.

Thanks in advance.
Thanks for the help. You answered my question perfectly.
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kabukicho
12-04-2021 at 09:51 AM.
12-04-2021 at 09:51 AM.
hmmm I presently have a similar situation.


Got the DS220+ as well. Had two 14TB WD drives ready WD140EDFZ.

In the storage mgr of the DSM interface GUI for the Synology, the wizard for creating a POOL, I chose BASIC, and the next screen I get to pick which drive of my two, or both of them, to apply this selection.
afterwards,you can create volume(s) within the POOL.

anyway I believe this option would result in the POOL being one of the physical disk drives in the NAS, as a fully independent drive, not much different than a USB external drive, except in the case of the Synology, it's on the LAN with an IP of course.
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