Originally Posted By: mlord
My buddy's older QNAP box certainly does not work that way.


The QNAP website mentions this (in their current feature set):

Online RAID Capacity Expansion
The storage capacity of a RAID configuration can be expanded by replacing the hard drives with larger ones. All the data will be kept and seamlessly moved to the newly installed hard drives. There is no need to turn off the server during the process.


Isn't that exactly what Rob is looking for?

Edit: this is the spec sheet for the Qnap TS-509 Pro : here or here for a Synology example (DS-409+).


Edited by Archeon (26/10/2009 19:17)
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