Disclaimer: I know jack about an NAS. I bought a Synology DS218j so I could have an always-on network storage device to stream movie and TV show files without having my PC on 24-hours a day.
The Western Digital white 10 TB drive in my DS218j is getting close to capacity, so I bought and added a second identical drive. But after Storage Manager took close to 24 hours to “add it to the storage pool” whatever that means, it still only showed 9 TB of space total.
Apparently I created a RAID1 array with the new drive as a redundancy and no additional storage, which does me no good.
I want to split my data, which is all currently on the one 10tb drive streaming to Plex, between the current one and the new 10tb, with movies on one drive, TV shows on another. I'm not too concerned with data backup at this time because I back it up to internal hard drives on my PC periodically and I'm investigating inexpensive automated cloud backup.
I've been told that I should a new storage pool for the 2nd 10tb drive. Is that correct? If so, how do I go about that with Synology's Storage Manager; it's not obvious to me. If you don't want to type it out, just a link would be fine.
And if a new storage pool doesn't fit my needs, what would you suggest?
Thanks so much for your help!
The Western Digital white 10 TB drive in my DS218j is getting close to capacity, so I bought and added a second identical drive. But after Storage Manager took close to 24 hours to “add it to the storage pool” whatever that means, it still only showed 9 TB of space total.
Apparently I created a RAID1 array with the new drive as a redundancy and no additional storage, which does me no good.
I want to split my data, which is all currently on the one 10tb drive streaming to Plex, between the current one and the new 10tb, with movies on one drive, TV shows on another. I'm not too concerned with data backup at this time because I back it up to internal hard drives on my PC periodically and I'm investigating inexpensive automated cloud backup.
I've been told that I should a new storage pool for the 2nd 10tb drive. Is that correct? If so, how do I go about that with Synology's Storage Manager; it's not obvious to me. If you don't want to type it out, just a link would be fine.
And if a new storage pool doesn't fit my needs, what would you suggest?
Thanks so much for your help!