![]() ![]() It took about 30 minutes to create the 1.8 TiB filesystem and I was up and running. I started the out by navigating the friendly Quick Configuration screens and setting up my three working drives as a 1.8 TiB formatted RAID-5 I planned to add the fourth drive later and expand the RAID to the full 2.7 TiB capacity. By default, the TS-439 gets an address via DHCP from the router and reports this address on the front panel making it easy to find with any web browser on your subnet. Since Windows is not my primary environment, I configured the NAS via the web interface. The DOA drive would give me the opportunity to try out the RAID expansion features of the TS-439. After troubleshooting the drive and convincing myself that it was not an issue with the NAS, itself, I had a new drive cross-shipped immediately. It was DOA and would not be recognized by the NAS. Each drive spun up and its light went green, with the exception of one drive. Four screws fasten each drive into its sled and they slide smoothly into the NAS. ![]() The NAS has 4 easy to access and remove aluminum drive sleds. When everything arrived, I was in a hurry to get started. ![]() My plan was to set up the NAS with 4 drives running in RAID-5, which provides about 3 TiB of storage while allowing the NAS to survive a single drive failure. As soon as the QNAP TS-439 Pro NAS shipped, I ordered 4 identical 1 TiB Hitachi Deskstar drives from Newegg. ![]()
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