Is this possible?

[vapor]

Good day

If I have a 2 bay, would it be possible to set up shares on which disks I choose. I guess what mean is, could those 2 disks function as 2 separated disks?

 

[stevech]

That's how my 2 disk NAS is setup (DS212). Each disk is a separate volume. No RAID. Shares can be on the selected drive. And I have the NAD auto-backup configured to dupe files on volume 1 to volume 2 as backup, with these being on different disks and different file systems. Seems more resilient to me than RAID1 - as I have had a file system get corrupted on PCs a few times.

 

[thiggins]

It depends on the NAS. Some multi-drive NASes won't let you set up each drive as a separate volume and set them up in JBOD (one big share) instead. You need to check the product specs.

 

[vapor]

Thank you for the feedback on this.

What is this feature called so that I can check?

Does the QNAP TS112 and Synology DS212j have this feature?

 

[thiggins]

There is no consistent term for this. Both QNAP and Synology handle multiple volumes and let you assign a volume per drive if you wish.