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Chapter 8.
Hot-swap Hard Drives
The QNAP NAS is compatible with 2.5-inch/3.5-inch SATA hard drives from major hard
drive brands. For the updated hard drive compatibility list, please
visit
Caution:
QNAP disclaims any responsibility for product damage/malfunction or data
loss/recovery due to misuse or improper installation of hard disks in any occasions for
any reasons.
Note that if a hard drive (new or used) which has never been installed on the NAS
before is installed, the hard drive will be formatted and partitioned automatically and all
the disk data will be cleared.
System
Supports
3.5-inch
SATA Hard
Drives
Supports
2.5-inch
SATA Hard
Drives
Supports
SSD
Supports
Hot-swappin
g Hard Drives
(RAID 1 or
above only)
TS-EC880 Pro, TS-EC1080
Pro, TS-EC2480U-RP,
TS-EC1680U-RP,
TS-EC1280U-RP,
TS-EC880U-RP
TVS-EC2480U-SAS-RP,
TVS-EC1680U-SAS-RP,
TVS-EC1580MU-SAS-RP,
TVS-EC1280MU-SAS-RP
TDS-16489
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
The NAS supports hot-swapping the hard drives when 1 member drive crashes in RAID 1 or
1–2 member drives crash in RAID 5 or RAID 6. Follow the steps below to hot-swap the hard
drive when a member drive fails in a RAID configuration.
1.
Login the NAS and check the storage pool status in “Storage Manager” > “Storage
Pools”.
2.
The storage pool status should be “Warning” and RAID group status should be
“Degraded”.