I have a QNAP T469L NAS with four 3TB drives configured in Raid 10 array, yielding about 5.4 TB of usable data space. It currently has 2.23 TB of data stored. The system does ok, but the NAS is maxed out at 3GB of RAM and uses an Intel Atom processor. Thus very weak in horsepower.
My plan is to build a workstation using a HP Z840 with 64 GB of RAM and dual XEON processors which I have already purchased. I will recreate the NAS data store insode this Win10 Pro box using four additional 3TB drives in Raid 10. I have two new Sata III 3 TB drives, but want to use two identical drives that are currently in the NAS.
My questions then:
Can I start with a Raid 0 configuration using the two new 3TB drives I have ready, and then transfer the 2.23 TB of data to that? Then once the data is moved, remove the two 3TB drives from the NAS and rebuild the 2-disk Raid 0 to a 4-disk Raid 10? My only misgiving is that there will be a brief time during this transition that the Raid 0 is the only copy of my data. Finally, during the conversion, will data from the Raid 0 be wiped out when converting to Raid 10?
Any thoughts, suggestions, or advice is greatly appreciated.
My plan is to build a workstation using a HP Z840 with 64 GB of RAM and dual XEON processors which I have already purchased. I will recreate the NAS data store insode this Win10 Pro box using four additional 3TB drives in Raid 10. I have two new Sata III 3 TB drives, but want to use two identical drives that are currently in the NAS.
My questions then:
Can I start with a Raid 0 configuration using the two new 3TB drives I have ready, and then transfer the 2.23 TB of data to that? Then once the data is moved, remove the two 3TB drives from the NAS and rebuild the 2-disk Raid 0 to a 4-disk Raid 10? My only misgiving is that there will be a brief time during this transition that the Raid 0 is the only copy of my data. Finally, during the conversion, will data from the Raid 0 be wiped out when converting to Raid 10?
Any thoughts, suggestions, or advice is greatly appreciated.
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