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One of the problems as you shop around for a NAS device, is that you find the price of a good 4-disk NAS might be a tad beyond what you might want to spend so you look around and find a one- or two-disk NAS device, and you wonder how quickly it’ll end up with your other hi-tech junk closet. Some 4-disk NAS devices might not be that future-proof either if you cannot replace them with larger disks. So you contemplate…
- Buy a 1- or 2-disk NAS, but know that it’s useful life will be limited
- Plunk down a big part of your paycheck for a 4-disk NAS
- Do nothing and keep using a single disk
X-RAID is Infrant Technologies patent-pending Expandable RAID technology, allows users to add drives at their leisure. Start with one disk or add a second disk to gain disk failure protection. Add a third to automatically double the capacity while maintaining protection. Finally, add a fourth disk to triple the protected capacity, all without reconfiguring the system and without having to shuffle data in and out of the device.
- 1 Drive = NAS
- 2 Drives = NAS + RAID Protection
- 3 Drives = NAS + RAID Protection + Double Capacity
- 4 Drives = NAS + RAID Protection + Triple Capacity
Not only that, as larger and larger disks become cheaper and cheaper, you can replace all four disks (one by one), and your capacity grows even greater — all the while letting X-RAID do all the RAID level and data migration in the background so you still see just one volume with all your data intact, just with more free space.
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