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AMA - Ask Us Anything About ReadyNAS and You Could Win a ReadyNAS 214!
We are hosting an extended 4 week Ask Me Anything AMA for the NETGEAR ReadyNAS line of products and we would love to answer your ReadyNAS questions. Best of all, posting your question below enter...
Is the ReadyNAS 102 (2bay) capable of using the WD Red 8TB drives (2x8TB) in RAID1 with the latest Firmware?
Specifically the WD Red 8TB with 256 cache.
If so, is there a specific process flow for building the disks?
Thanks
wdunn wrote:
Is the ReadyNAS 102 (2bay) capable of using the WD Red 8TB drives (2x8TB) in RAID1 with the latest Firmware?
Specifically the WD Red 8TB with 256 cache.
If so, is there a specific process flow for building the disks?
Thanks
Yes, RN102 supports WD Red Drive. There is no special process flow to follow. Just following the admin UI to build the disks.
Just a word a caution, RN102 is no longer in production. Some of the more advanced features may not run well on that model. A great replacement is RN212. You can use the same drive from RN102 for it so the incremental investment is contained.
douglas_cheung wrote:
wdunn wrote:Is the ReadyNAS 102 (2bay) capable of using the WD Red 8TB drives (2x8TB) in RAID1 with the latest Firmware?
Specifically the WD Red 8TB with 256 cache.
If so, is there a specific process flow for building the disks?
Thanks
Yes, RN102 supports WD Red Drive. There is no special process flow to follow. Just following the admin UI to build the disks.
Just a word a caution, RN102 is no longer in production. Some of the more advanced features may not run well on that model. A great replacement is RN212. You can use the same drive from RN102 for it so the incremental investment is contained.
The WD 8TB Red drives are synching now, ETA about 26 hours. The issue was they were preformatted.
I'm very confident I'll win the drawing for the Readynas 214. :)
On the off chance, I don't, what's the story on the ReadyNas 312? I'm seeing Out of Stock, and clearance on this item. I understand they have different processors (2core vs 4core), is there a reason to pick one over the other.
wdunn wrote:
what's the story on the ReadyNas 312? I'm seeing Out of Stock, and clearance on this item. I understand they have different processors (2core vs 4core), is there a reason to pick one over the other.
There is a new model the RN422 you could consider. The RN312 and RN422 use Intel processors. There are more apps available for the Intel platform and some features only work on our models with Intel CPUs. The RN422 and RN424 have dual-core CPUs whereas the RN426 and RN428 have quad-core CPUs.
