I am getting ready to purchase a DriveStation Quad.
While 3TB of RAID 5 Space is certainly enough for me for a long time, I wanted to know when the warranty expires and I need to replace Drives:
1. Can I use a drive larger then 1 TB one by one.
- Meaning in 3 years when 10 TB Drives come as prices in a box of Cereal can they be used in my quadstation?
- Can I replace a single failed 1TB drive with a 3TB drive (using only 1TB of it I know, but can I use a larger disk to replace a smaller one)
2. If I replace all the drives (one at a time, rebuilding along the way) with say 3TB drives can I then extend my RAID to use the entire space (9TB or RAID 5)?
3. If I can't extend it can I reformat and use the full space of the new larger drives?
4. Is there a limit on how large the drives can be??