How to Expand Storage Capacity by Adding Hard Drives

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How to Expand Storage Capacity by Adding Hard Drives
Today we will be adding in an additional hard drives to your Synology's NAS RAID Pool. Its super easy to do as long as you follow some simple rules.
1. Backup most important data on your NAS using Hybrid backup
2. Check S.M.A.R.T test results on drives to make sure it don't find any faults on the drives, if it does, replace them.
3. Try not to over work the NAS while its expanding the storage pool and rebuilding the RAID Array.
4. I am using SHR Hybrid RAID which means I don't have to fill all my drive bays at the same time and gives me the option of adding additional drives later on.
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@Britec09 2 жыл бұрын

Want to see more on the subject? Let me know below what you want to see next. Drop us a LIKE 👍

@_Ciosu.. 2 жыл бұрын

Sure do .

@Crix4evaTnT 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Brian i'm having a problem i need your advice my pc was working fine and after use one night i do the normal shut it down.. then as normal after a day at work i come home and press the power button nothing happens ok so i disconnect everything then plug it back in and press the power button and the system came back on so again after use i shut it down came be the next day press the button and again nothing happens so i disconnect everything plug it back in and nothing happens i checked the power supply it works checked the button on the case it also works so i was thinking it was the MB the whole system is 2 yrs old so i left the as is and after 3 days i press the power button it powered on wtf ok so i left it on for 4 day 24/7 here my problem i can restart and can also shut the system down as soon as the system is powered down if i press the button it will power on but if i power down and leave it for 10 mins the system wont power on weird now my system is running off a UPS so i checked my UPS the batteries are good it's 1000va =600watts my system wont power on connected to the UPS anymore but will power on if i plug it in directly on a wall outlet the UPS is also 2 yrs old can you help figure this out ? what you think is the problem why my computer wont power via the UPS anymore even tho the batteries are good what could be the problem note my pc is 2 yrs old except the power supply i also tried a new power supply same problem i've run out of ideas

@JennyGavinWear 7 ай бұрын

Thank you very much. Assuring to watch your video as I added a couple of drives today. Smooth.

@SupraManG 2 жыл бұрын

Always good to see a video about NAS systems. Thanks, Brian, for this educational video.

@Britec09 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@JKhalaf 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for this. I found it very useful 👍

@ahmad8982 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tutorial

@djdoolittle1315 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Bri, I’m about to do this ✊️

@Britec09 2 жыл бұрын

Must have bit of kit

@sylvainalain6637 2 ай бұрын

Just added an another 12 TB Ironwolf, first time that I added a disk to my existing DS923+ I did run a full smart test that took around 18h to complete before adding that drive to my existing RAID1. I switched from RAID1 to RAID5 in the process too.

@charlesxix 2 жыл бұрын

Spot on thanks.

@MNinPerth 6 ай бұрын

Hi and thanks for the great channel. Can you possibly briefly explain process for upgrading to 2 larger capacity drives in a 4 bay system which already has 4 identical drives present? (Synology DS920+). I'm running low on volume and there are no drive errors. Does it matter which of the 2 drives you remove and replace? There are several KZfaq videos explaining this but they all seem to either replace failing drives or adding drives to vacant drive bays. Can't find any advice about replacing healthy drives in an already full system. Must you disable and then remove a drive 1st and then rebuild the Raid and then repeat with the next drive? NAS off or on and hot swoppable? Many thanks and once again, thanks for all your efforts with the great videos.

@Count_Ade 11 ай бұрын

Hi, I have a Synology DS920 plus running 2 x 4tb wd red plus drives in SHR as a Plex media server. I've just ordered 2 more of the same drives to fill up the 2 remaining bays so my question is: Should I add the new drives together or 1 at a time? Many thanks in advance for any help 😊👍🏾

@user-cm2jl8dy9k 5 ай бұрын

I'm about to buy a 8 bay nas and 2 18 tb drives harddrives are quite expensive so I was looking for if you are able to buy drives gradually and still have one volume if I understand this video right that is possibly right?

@user-yz7hi5zb7p 7 ай бұрын

Hi would adding a additional hard disk, would the process erase the existing data on the other exisiting hard disks ? Currently the array is in RAID 5 mode

@welshtony1 2 жыл бұрын

Synology do make it seriously easy to do :)

@Britec09 2 жыл бұрын

They sure do

@aliservan7188 Жыл бұрын

I've got a DS1620, 4x10TB and 2x12TB drives with about 50% storage. I tried to find your backup video, as commercial backup for that much data costs about £3k. For that much I could buy another NAS, or is that the point? Are there any cheaper options?

@IsraelSuperguide Жыл бұрын

May be u could help. I have my synology with capacity for 6HD of 12 T each. - But somehow it only uses the capacity of 2HD when in reality there are 3 brand new disks. The same was when I had two I had only available 1HD. What am I doing wrong, and why I can't use all HDs? Thanks

@Grue_ni 2 ай бұрын

Hi! if i want to add two drives to my existing SHR.... do i have to add them one by one or can i just install both of them and add two to my storage pool?

@TechnowulfTV Жыл бұрын

can we turn off the nas once it started to add the new drive?

@ToPanPawel Жыл бұрын

What if I have Storage pool with 2 x 4TB drives in RAID 1, and now I want to add 2x 8TB drives to expand this storage pool. Synology shows me that If I add the 2x8Tb to this storage pool, its size will expand by 3.6TB only. What to do to get the 8TB expansion?

@anthonynowlan9765 2 жыл бұрын

Curious on comparison of performance hit during rebuild for raid10 vs raid5.

@Britec09 2 жыл бұрын

www.diffen.com/difference/RAID-5-vs-RAID-10#:~:text=accessible%20during%20recovery.-,Performance,the%20overhead%20of%20calculating%20parity.

@Drottninggatan2017 2 жыл бұрын

This system appears to be using "Synology Hybrid Raid (SHR). But often time other types of RAID are used. You can't add another drive to for instance RAID 1 without changing the RAID type.

@Britec09 2 жыл бұрын

Hence why I am using SHR

@johannes1498 2 жыл бұрын

interesting content!

@Britec09 2 жыл бұрын

People don't seem to like it.

@paulwarner5395 2 жыл бұрын

@@Britec09 Not knowing much about NAS I found it quite interesting..

@markanderson2155 2 жыл бұрын

Yes please I would like to see about building a simple basic NAS with comparison to just buying one. Also just how old of a board and processor could be used. Reason I ask is I have an old Gigabyte board (never used) with an AMD XP class processor. I have both a Barton and Thoroughbred core processor. Old IDE connectors with two Sata connectors on MB. If not useable then I will have to find a inexpensive board. I also have several older cases lying around. I'm sure I might be able to use some parts.

@Britec09 2 жыл бұрын

I see what I can do

@Skoog. 2 жыл бұрын

I have a synoligy 1815 it had 8 3tb drives , i had to replace 2 of them and could only find 4tb drives. Everything worked replacing them , but the nas only see 3tb out of the 4tb. So i loose 2tb. How can i use those 2tb? I have it running raid 6.

@Britec09 2 жыл бұрын

understanding RAID 6 www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/definition/RAID-6-redundant-array-of-independent-disks#:~:text=RAID%206%2C%20also%20known%20as,redundancy%2C%20although%20RAID%206%20does.

@Piesy001 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you guys to help me understand why use a very expensive Synology for storage expansion instead of a JBOD or DAS. (Different country) a 5 Bay Synology here is over $1000 where I can get an 8 bay JBOD for $350. Is it only for the RAID back up reasons? I mean you can use software like stablebit to the JBOD for pooling etc (Not a business or office backup). What am I missing? Its mainly for expanded movie storage for Plex. Backups are not hugely important.

@PsychoPisces Жыл бұрын

it won't let me add the drive to exisiting storage pool only creating a new one. Super odd.

@PICUDOtheFIRST Жыл бұрын

I followed your steps but after a couple days once the storage has been added to the pool, I still don’t see the storage get bigger.(the new one wasn’t added to the total amount) what could be wrong?

@kevincerda4265 Жыл бұрын

I'm experiencing the same issue, if anyone has any sort of insight i'd appreciate it!

@PICUDOtheFIRST Жыл бұрын

@@kevincerda4265 Only solution I found around it was to make raid type into JBOD. Wasn’t able to find a solution.

@mcunhabr 9 ай бұрын

@@kevincerda4265from synology's kb: To expand the volume size: Once a storage pool contains sufficient capacity, the size of its corresponding volume can be expanded either automatically or manually, depending on the storage pool type. Single-volume storage pool: For a storage pool that supports a single volume, the volume size will be expanded automatically once the storage pool capacity has been expanded. For details, refer to To add a drive to a storage pool. Multiple-volume storage pool: For a storage pool that supports multiple volumes, the volume size can be expanded manually once the storage pool contains sufficient capacity. For details, refer to Expand the Volume Size.

@f23948 2 жыл бұрын

Can I use iDrive cloud backup instead of NAS???

@Britec09 2 жыл бұрын

If you want to

@xufos69 14 күн бұрын

I just added 8TB for my ds923+ and it took 1 day 19 hours, bruhhh…I can watch 2-3 season anime within that time

@yoshy2628 2 жыл бұрын

Q - My synology got only 2 hdd slots. How can I expand them when I have no free conector left? A - Just buy a new Synology NAS, preferably with 5 or more hdd conectors. q - Indeed, that's the way for upgrade.

@Britec09 2 жыл бұрын

You can use a synology extender