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NEW 2TB HARDDISK INSTALLATION

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NEW 2TB HARDDISK INSTALLATION

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Hi morning team,
We are using 3 500gb hard disk without raid and now we are planning to install 2tb harddisk.
so it supports 2tb harddisk with 500gb 3 harddish.And system has one empty harddisk slot.
And please find the attached system information.

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if you are asking if you can use a 2tb hd without raid with your system then yes.
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simultaneously i can use 3 x 500gb harddisk and one 2tb harddisk in our system.

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team Please help me on this can we use simultaneously 3 x 500gb harddisk and one 2tb harddisk in our system. if possible will it get disturbed to the existing 3 x 500gb harddisk which data is stored on all the 3 harddisk.

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yes you can actually add as many drives as you have SATA ports.
If you don't delete or format your other disks it won't interfere with the existing drives
NAS 1: Milchkuh: Asrock C2550D4I, Intel Avoton C2550 Quad-Core, 16GB DDR3 ECC, 5x3TB WD Red RaidZ1 +60 GB SSD for ZIL/L2ARC, APC-Back UPS 350 CS, NAS4Free 11.0.0.4.3460 embedded
NAS 2: Backup: HP N54L, 8 GB ECC RAM, 4x4 TB WD Red, RaidZ1, NAS4Free 11.0.0.4.3460 embedded
NAS 3: Office: HP N54L, 8 GB ECC RAM, 2x3 TB WD Red, ZFS Mirror, APC-Back UPS 350 CS NAS4Free 11.0.0.4.3460 embedded

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