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I'm taking my first dive into the world of NASes (haven't really seen much of a need so far, but I said what the hell; maybe it'll ease some of my file management).
I decided on an Asustor Lockerstor 4 Gen 2.
I'm gonna start it off with 2 Seagate IronWolf Pro at 8TBs.
Since the NAS has 4 bays I'm wondering if I'll be able to insert a 3rd or 4th existing drive (meaning there's already content on them, and of a different size than the two above), but they're not meant for long-term use.
I simply want to use the extra bays as a simple way to copy off of those extra drives onto the two main ones.
Basically, I'd like to avoid needing to connect any drives to my PC and then push that data to the NAS. And simply use just the NAS to transfer data over, from current drives to the storage drives.
I would expect this to be doable, but thought it be useful to ask some more experienced heads on this.
I decided on an Asustor Lockerstor 4 Gen 2.
I'm gonna start it off with 2 Seagate IronWolf Pro at 8TBs.
Since the NAS has 4 bays I'm wondering if I'll be able to insert a 3rd or 4th existing drive (meaning there's already content on them, and of a different size than the two above), but they're not meant for long-term use.
I simply want to use the extra bays as a simple way to copy off of those extra drives onto the two main ones.
Basically, I'd like to avoid needing to connect any drives to my PC and then push that data to the NAS. And simply use just the NAS to transfer data over, from current drives to the storage drives.
I would expect this to be doable, but thought it be useful to ask some more experienced heads on this.
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