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Icy Box Ib-Rd3621u3
3.5"
Question about Icy Box Ib-Rd3621u3
Assumption: I have 5 identical hard drives with 10TB storage capacity each. Can I merge these 5 hard drives into one big one that will then have 50TB? I am looking for a box that can do exactly that - make several hard drives into one big one. If not, which device do I need?
This device can be used for this, it is a Synology NAS with 5 drive bays. You can install 5 hard disks of any size and then set up these hard disks as a so-called RAID0 (this is a combination of all 5 disks, but without hardware failure protection), whereby if one disk fails the whole array is destroyed or you can set up 5 hard disks as RAID5 (then 4 disks are used for the disk array and one disk is subtracted).(4 disks are then used for the disk array and one disk is then subtracted for the parity information, whereby this information is written distributed on all disks, but in RAID5 you do not have 5 x 10 TB available but 4 x 10TB), whereby if one disk fails, you can still see the whole array online and simply have to replace the broken disk.
Synology DS1522+ (0 TB)
If even more space is needed, there are also Synology NAS servers that have 6 or 8 bays:
Synology DS1621+ (0 TB)
Synology DS1821+ (0 TB)
With more drive bays, you can also choose smaller disks to create a large disk array.