08-03-2022, 09:30 PM
In your Setup Guide YouTube video series, you never addressed why you left the fourth drive unformatted in the series (I watched all 10 setup guides). You used 4 HDD's, formatted three of them with RAID 5 and said you were leaving the fourth one for showing what to do with it in the next video. My questions:
1. Why RAID 5 instead of SHR-2 (my understanding is with SHR-2, I can replace one HDD with a bigger one and gain more space, Can't do that with RAID 5)
2. What are you doing with the fourth drive that is not in the RAID 5 configuration?
3 . you mentioned that we should wait to install the extra RAM until after we setup the RAID and DSM. Why? I haven't started using it yet and I can reset and remove the RAM if it really makes a significant difference and start over. Thanks for your help and your setup videos.
1. Why RAID 5 instead of SHR-2 (my understanding is with SHR-2, I can replace one HDD with a bigger one and gain more space, Can't do that with RAID 5)
2. What are you doing with the fourth drive that is not in the RAID 5 configuration?
3 . you mentioned that we should wait to install the extra RAM until after we setup the RAID and DSM. Why? I haven't started using it yet and I can reset and remove the RAM if it really makes a significant difference and start over. Thanks for your help and your setup videos.