Is Flex RAID possible on this box? I have 2 500GB drives and 2 1TB drives, no money to upgrade drives at the moment and I'd like to use as much storage as possible while keeping redundancy. Essentially I'd like one 500GB RAID-1 volume and one 1TB RAID-1 volume, I don't have the box yet as I'm thinking of buying one from a mate in work.
I'm new to NAS stuff but as I understand it X Raid only allows you to have one volume per box? By multiple RAID sets do you mean there is an option to have 2 volumes on one box?
You can do a RAID 1 array on the 500GB's & a RAID 1 array on the 1TB drives. or you could do a RAID 5 on the whole 4 drives, that'd still give you 1.3-1.4TB usable space & you could use x-RAID to swap drives out when you've got spare money to increase the space available
Option 2 sounds perfect but this seems to disagree? (not being difficult, I just want to understand what is possible and there seems to be conflicting info all over the web) http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=6239 EDIT: Apologies I've done some more reading on RAID 5, thanks for your help
