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2 bay NAS? - Enquiries - 02-28-2020
Hello, here is a strange one for you but i have my reasons for it. I purchased a QNAP 252D NAS last year and has been great with 2 Western Digital reds inside 3tb each. I recently swapped them out for 6tb Seagate Ironwolfs each 6tb and installed the Q2 10gbe M2 card without fitting SSDs. This is generating alot of heat and when i open the cabinet door the NAS is inside, the NAS is too hot for my liking. The M2 is for QTier at a later date but i was wondering if i can get a 4tb SSD and swap out one of the Seagates for it with the view to swap out the other at a later date. I believe RAID 1 will not be possible but can they just be separate with the Seagate backing up or cloning the 4TB SSD until i can purchase a second SSD ?
2 bay NAS? - ed - 01-25-2021
Yes, you can have two separate volumes. One with SSD and another with HDD. You can then set up sync routines and keep data safe.I hope this helps.