I'm new to the whole NAS thing and will be building my first here shortly. I currently have some 3-4TB hard drives (which I'm guessing are SMR drives) and a newer Seagate 6TB Barracuda drive, (SMR) As with a lot of new NAS builders out there and I'm one to jump in and start playing with stuff, was not aware of the SMR and CMR drives. I have found that SMR does not play nice on NFS systems. I've tried to do more searching on this, but all I find is regarding the WD Reds that have SMR and the issues with those. But not much other info out there that I can find.
With out dropping a ton of money on new drives right away (wife and kids eat up most of the cash on hand) and use what I currently have, can I do the following?
I have an empty 6TB Seagate that I want to start out with and start moving data from some of my external drives over to this one. When those are empty, I want to add those externals one by one until I get everything moved over (I know I can't just take the filled drive and place it in because it will get cleared when pooled if I am correct.) So in all, I should have at least 4 drives. (Plan on shucking my externals I currently have so not fully sure what they are but guessing they are SMR since they are 3-4TB.)
Thanks for any thoughts. Again, I am going to get CMR drives down the road, but will come slowly.
With out dropping a ton of money on new drives right away (wife and kids eat up most of the cash on hand) and use what I currently have, can I do the following?
I have an empty 6TB Seagate that I want to start out with and start moving data from some of my external drives over to this one. When those are empty, I want to add those externals one by one until I get everything moved over (I know I can't just take the filled drive and place it in because it will get cleared when pooled if I am correct.) So in all, I should have at least 4 drives. (Plan on shucking my externals I currently have so not fully sure what they are but guessing they are SMR since they are 3-4TB.)
Thanks for any thoughts. Again, I am going to get CMR drives down the road, but will come slowly.