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(07-28-2011, 01:05 AM)NefCanuck Wrote: Hrm, well I'll have to sit down and actually look at this stuff in detail.

Sympatico these days is doing some weird crap, so if they were monkeying around on port 25 it wouldn't surprise me.

Latest twist with them is that my speed profile has been bumped to 12/1 (without my knowledge or request) and yet I'm still listed as having "unlimited" bandwidth and paying the grandfathered rate of $73 taxes in for the old 5/800 profile

Makes me wonder what they'll do if / when they figure out that this happened (The extra speed is nice on the downloads from sites that have the bandwidth I will admit)

To be honest, I think you could probably "downgrade" your service to 12/1, take an 80GB cap and save money...

But depends how much you pirate per month

Quote:Getting back to the main subject NAS questions -

If I were to add extra drives into the NAS box, what is the NAS box supposed to do when I add them?

Rebuild the array to take advantage of the extra drive space? Give me the options of different RAID configs? (Right now I'm at RAID 1 based on what I read in the docs, with four drives I could go up to RAID 5)

That all depends,

Most times you have to init the drives, and then you can add them to the existing raid pool that you have.

You can often change from mirrored to mirrored and striped, but most controllers won't allow you to go between major RAID levels -- ie, you usually can't go from striped to mirrored (and/or striped), or from mirrored (and/or striped) to Parity... etc etc.

Quote:Should I be looking at adding the drives now early on or should I just leave things until space becomes an issue? The only reason I thought that might be an issue is that I don't want to run into an issue of a drive that has different specs than the ones I have not playing nice, though I suppose the NAS box should take care of that sort of thing automagically right?

Right now I have two WD Green 2TB drives in the thing, don't need the fastest things on the planet for file storage and music access since the gigabit port is the limiting factor anyways.

NefCanuck

I would recommend sticking with what you have, and when you upgrade, just add to your existing pool. Going to a RAID 5 or 6 isn't a huge gain over mirrored with only 4 or 5 drives.

By the time you're ready to move on, you can back everything up to a single large drive and then rebuild your array with bigger/better disks.

and that'll be years from now anyways ..