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Ensure that I'm ordering exact same hard drives as drives already within Synology DS1815+ 8-bay

I have a Synology DS1815+ 8-bay Network-Attached Storage Device that is currently using only 4 of the 8 available hard drive bays.

The hard drives that are currently within this Synology are Western Digital WDC WD100EFAX-68LHPN0 10TB hard drives.

I need to buy 4 more of these hard drives and want to be sure when I order these brand new hard drives from an Amazon or eBay seller that I'm purchasing the exact same hard drives that are already within this Synology.

What steps do I need to follow to ensure that the Western Digital 10TB hard drives that I purchase are in fact exactly the same as the hard drives that are already within this Synology?

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But if I get this other drive instead

Will my Synology DS1815+ 8-bay NAS

be able to work with four of the Western Digital WDC WD100EFAX-68LHPN0 10TB hard drives

And four of the Western Digital 10TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD101EFBX hard drives at the same time?

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You don't need to have exact same drives. They don't need to even be from the same vendor. As long as they have correct interface and are large enough you can add them to the existing RAID group.

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The 4 hard drives that are currently within this Synology are set up in a RAID 5 array.

I would like to add the next 4 hard drives that I will be ordering and putting into this Synology DS1815+ 8-bay NAS into the same existing RAID 5 array without deleting any of the data currently contained within the array.

Will I be able to do this?
Will this be able to be done if I add four of the newer Western Digital 10TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD101EFBX hard drives to the existing RAID 5 array containing the four of the Western Digital WDC WD100EFAX-68LHPN0 10TB hard drives?

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