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instead of that, i know its expensive why dont you buy 5 new bigger capacity hard drives. Add a drive, rebuild and repeat until its all done.
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Well, first I'm not sure he I'd backup that much data. I have all 5 bas taken with 3TB drives. If I'm not mistaken, 4TB drives are still way expensive like in the $400 range. If I upgraded ll 5 to 4TB droves it would cost like $2000 and I'd gain like 4TB.
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i have a 4 bay loaded with 1.5TB with still a 1TB left but you got alot more data. If i was in your position i would go for it
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Go for it meaning add the expansion box and drives? Yeah that seems like the way to go.
Server: Synology Diskstation 1511+ with 8x WD Red NAS 3TB drives, DSM 5.2
Main HTPC: Home Built i3, 8GB RAM, Corsair 128GB SSD, nVidia 630GTX, Harmony Home Control, Pioneer VSX-53, Panasonic VT30 65" 3D TV, Windows 10, Isengard
Bedroom HTPC: Zotac-ID 41 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, Rii micro keyboard remote, Samsung HW-E550, Sony 32" Google TV, OpenElec 6.0 beta 4