Most likely, yes. The RAID (of any level) needs to be initialized, and that process will effectively wipe data on the attached physical devices.
That said, there are some interesting RAID-like technologies that automatically expand across new devices, e.g. Drobo, acting like a hybrid of RAID and LVM. I don't know if Synology NAS employs that or similar technology. Regards, - Robert On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 10:44 AM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > If I start with one 8TB drive in my Synology NAS, and later add > another and set them up as Raid 0, does the striping to Raid 0 mean > that the data on the existing drive gets wiped out? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
