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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...
Gatspud wrote:
What RAID types does it do? I would assume RAID 0,1, 10?, 5? If RAID 5 (for 3 drives) , does it support Hotspare for the 4th drive?
Yes. You could do RAID-6 too if you wanted. Using Flex-RAID you can create a volume and confgure a hot spare. Whichever RAID configuration you go with don't forget to backup. If data is stored on just the one device it's not backed up. RAID (except RAID-0) provides redundancy (your data should remain available in the event of a specified number of disk failures) but there's a range of issues that it won't protect against.
Gatspud wrote:
Also, do the 2 1Gbps interfaces support bonding?
Yes
Using Raid-1, what the maximum disk size for each drive bay in the:
ReadyNas 102, 212, and the 312 two bay systems? Seems like an easy question, but your marketing material/specs seems to vary.
wdunn wrote:
Using Raid-1, what the maximum disk size for each drive bay in the:
ReadyNas 102, 212, and the 312 two bay systems? Seems like an easy question, but your marketing material/specs seems to vary.
Marketing people just can't keep up with the real world. (No flame from the marketing type, please.)
When data sheets and marketing materials were made for the models cited above, the biggest drives were 6TB. Now NTGR officially supports 10TB drives in ReadyNAS OS 6. NTGR has not retroactively gone back and updated the maximum capacity of the systems.
Hope that helps.
