Can I use nas with already formatted disks?

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I have a qnap nas and put two drives in already full of stuff from my windows machine. Can I just use them as is?
 
How were the disks configured in your Windows machine? Was it a hardware or software RAID?
 
It might be possible, albeit incredibly risky. I wouldn't do this without first backing up. But if I had the disk space to back the data up, I would plan on doing that anyway with a fresh QNAP installation with RAID configuration.
 
The last two are correct, QNAP will clear any disks added to the array with the exception of the USB enclosre option Brian mentioned.
I've been researching QNAP models the past 6 months and know them pretty well.
 
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