Just a heads-up - adding a drive to the RAID will take quite some time to complete. Mine took several days when expanding from two to three 3TB drives. So… this is apparently normal, so no need to worry when that happens
@airwhale I expanded a SHR 6TB drive to 2 drive, then added 2 other 6TB, the first expand was pretty fast, just copied the data for data protection, but adding the other two was much slower since it had to do the redundancy and in effect was changing the kind of RAID from 1 to 5 but the SHR version. So in his case, it should be fairly quick to just mirror the drive. He won’t have more space though, but he’ll get protection.
actually that is not my point.
off site backup is nice, but this synology is capable of on site redundancy, and I would take advantage of it if I were you…
You connect a usb drive and backup to that.
If needed you can mirror the Synology to other units. On the same network or via the internet to a remote location l.