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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 enters you in a sweepstake to win a ReadyNAS 214 with 4x 2-terabyte hard drives.
*Update - 9/14 - The Winner has been contacted - We will announce soon.
Learn more about NETGEAR ReadyNAS products for Home and ReadyNAS for Small & Medium businesses.
Sweepstakes rules and alternative means of entry:
How to ask a question and enter:
- In the discussion thread below post a question for our ReadyNAS team about ReadyNAS products.
- During the Questions & Answers and entry period: 7/26/2017 – 8/28/2017 a ReadyNAS rep will visit this thread and answer relevant questions Monday-Friday.
- After the Q&A is finished one lucky respondent will be chosen at random to receive a ReadyNAS 214!
We look forward to your questions.
Good Luck
Update 8/29 - The AMA Period is now closed. Thank you to everyone for submitting their questions about ReadyNAS.
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If one has a 4 bay ReadyNAS system and has two bays with 6TB HDDs in these two bays and the other two are empty, can one install the 10TB HDDs in them at a later date and the 6TB and 10TB HDDs will function together in the the ReadyNAS? As the size of NAS HDDs increase, will the ReadyNAS systems be able to accept the larger HDDs?
David-YKS wrote:If one has a 4 bay ReadyNAS system and has two bays with 6TB HDDs in these two bays and the other two are empty, can one install the 10TB HDDs in them at a later date and the 6TB and 10TB HDDs will function together in the the ReadyNAS? As the size of NAS HDDs increase, will the ReadyNAS systems be able to accept the larger HDDs?
Generally, inserting larger driver later on in to empty slots automatically expands an x-raid configured system. The capacity can be considered using the online sizing tool. Make sure you check the drive compatibility, but basically several 6TB and 10TB drives are supported.
David-YKS wrote:
As the size of NAS HDDs increase, will the ReadyNAS systems be able to accept the larger HDDs?
We won't know for sure whether higher capacity disks than what are currently available work till they're available so we can test them in current models. It's possible there could be software/hardware compatibility issues. If there are software issues they may be addressable by a firmware update. If there's a hardware compatibility issue then it could be time to get a new NAS.
David-YKS wrote:
If one has a 4 bay ReadyNAS system and has two bays with 6TB HDDs in these two bays and the other two are empty, can one install the 10TB HDDs in them at a later date and the 6TB and 10TB HDDs will function together in the the ReadyNAS?
Yes. Using X-RAID you'll get horizontal expansion when you add the first 10TB disk and after adding the second 10TB disk you'll get some more horizontal expansion, plus vertical expansion. X-RAID can only expand when redundant space can be added to the volume. So 2x6TB and 1x10TB disk will give you the same volume capacity as 3x6TB disks, but 2x6TB + 2x10TB disks will give you a higher capacity volume than 4x6TB disks.
- What's the best advice you can give on upgrading from an old ReadyNAS model to a newer one and preserve all many TBs of data, users and addons?
mpartipilo wrote:
What's the best advice you can give on upgrading from an old ReadyNAS model to a newer one and preserve all many TBs of data, users and addons?Probably best to start with specifying which old model you have, as it can make a significant difference?
Sorry I can't update the original reply anymore. I have 2 ReadyNAS at home. The DUO is not used anymore because it's too loud, though I could use it if necessary. The Ultra 2 is my main NAS. I am considering upgrading to a more recent NAS with more bays. I certainly wouldn't mind winning one in some contest *wink wink*.
mpartipilo wrote:
What's the best advice you can give on upgrading from an old ReadyNAS model to a newer one and preserve all many TBs of data, users and addons?Well that depends on which model you want to go from and to. We can advise you on whether that's a good idea or whether a different new model would be a better fit if you can give us some info on what you want to do with the new NAS.
Edit: Ah, I see aks already answered this. If the old unit running RAIDiator is still working then getting a new NAS with new disks and using backup jobs to copy the data across would be best. From your Ultra you'd use this: How do I back up data from a RAIDiator 4 system to a ReadyNAS OS 6 system?
Are there any Apps compatible with ReadyNas that allow the normalisation / compression and/or pre EQ of music audio file stored before transport to an AVR?
wellbuttie wrote:
Are there any Apps compatible with ReadyNas that allow the normalisation / compression and/or pre EQ of music audio file stored before transport to an AVR?
What are you trying to achieve? Drop them in a special directory for automated conversion or manually select files to be converted? Or maybe even run a scheduled task over his music library? Are you wanting to keep the originals or remove them?...
mdgm wrote:
wellbuttie wrote:Are there any Apps compatible with ReadyNas that allow the normalisation / compression and/or pre EQ of music audio file stored before transport to an AVR?
What are you trying to achieve? Drop them in a special directory for automated conversion or manually select files to be converted? Or maybe even run a scheduled task over his music library? Are you wanting to keep the originals or remove them?...
Hi mdgm,
Many thanks for your response.
The objective is to "enhance" the perceived sound (signal)from the Music files prior to transport to my AVR (without either changing the original file, nor having to use software to manually edit each individual music file).
For Example, in the live environment I can route the signal from by guitar through a signal processor, which is then fed to an amplifier.
When listening to (128kbps) streaming radio via my AVR the sound quality appears to have a "fuller" sound, than when I am streaming (24bit/96kHz) WAV or Flac files from my readyNas, to the same AVR. I was wondering if there was a way to route the audio signal through a ReadyNas compatible App, that would apply audio "enhancements", to the digital signal prior to transport to the AVR (Similar to what the Internet Radio stations do to enhance their perceived audio quality).
Many thanks
Steve
Hi,
Are there ReadyNAS available certified for VMWare or HyperV?
chriswal wrote:
Hi,
Are there ReadyNAS available certified for VMWare or HyperV?
Yes we've got VMWare certification for some models. Have a look at our Business models. It depends on how many VMs you want and what they'll be used for as to which model to get.
We have some KB articles on how to set up ESXi. You can use NFS or iSCSI.
How does the 214 CPU compare to the CPU in the PRO 6 I have now?
dsm1212 wrote:
How does the 214 CPU compare to the CPU in the PRO 6 I have now?
The 214 is ARM whereas the Pro 6 has an x86 CPU. The logical upgrade from the Pro 6 would be a 520 series or 620 series unit. If you only need 4 bays then a RN524X.
Depending on what you want to do the RN524X could be overkill. What do you use your Pro 6 for now and what would you use your new NAS for?
Can ReadyNas 214 backup to drives that is connected to Netgear R7000 Router? Or other netgear routers.
I'm close to a buying decision, seeing that I'm at 94% usage on my Duo! (or maybe win the one on offer here - who knows! :smileywink: ) I'm more inclined to the RN212, but a 214 would be a nice upgrade!
Last question. Do the RN212/RN214 models support the latest 6TB drives from Toshiba (N300 - HDWN160UZSVA for example)?
nukie wrote:
Can ReadyNas 214 backup to drives that is connected to Netgear R7000 Router? Or other netgear routers.
Not sure why you'd want to do that when you can connect one directly to the NAS. Provided the router shares it over SMB I think that should be possible however the samba code on routers is often a lot older than that on our ReadyNAS. I haven't tested this.
I don't think the Orbi supports USB storage at this time.
Can Type of Solid state drive can I use with this device?
Whatten wrote:
Can Type of Solid state drive can I use with this device?
The RN214 is a home device at the cost effective end of our range. Keith linked to our compatibility list above. Both 2.5" and 3.5" disks can be installed.
If you're wanting to use SSDs I would go for a more powerful ReadyNAS unit. Our 520 series and 620 series have one/more 10gig ports and will provide the most benefit from using SSDs.
I created a backup job on the ReadyNAS. On completion its choices to send an e-mail are "Errors Only", "Full Backup Logs", and "Status and Errors". Is there any way to blank out this field and never get an e-mail?
(I actually have a number of different external drives and created a job for each one. One job will succeed every day but the rest will fail and send me error reports of that failure. It would be great not to see those errors.)
Thanks.
LCATech wrote:
I created a backup job on the ReadyNAS. On completion its choices to send an e-mail are "Errors Only", "Full Backup Logs", and "Status and Errors". Is there any way to blank out this field and never get an e-mail?
Thanks for the suggestion. Is this with your Pro? Or with a newer ReadyNAS unit. The Pro was discontinued some years ago now. We're not adding new features to RAIDiator-x86 anymore but rather critical security fixes.
Sorry for the lack of details on my part. For the backup job on trying not to get an error report, it is on a ReadyNAS 4220, running firmware 6.8.0.
Thanks,
David
- Is it possible to automatically sync video from Arlo cams to readynas?
About the ReadyNAS 214.
Way back in time I once ran into the bad luck my ReadyNAS Ultra2 unit itself crashed.
Back then that meant you were in bad luck as Raidiator apparently wrote part of it's information onto the disks in the system that were system specific and rendered the disk useless in a new ReadyNAS Ultra2. The only way I was able to retrieve the data on the disks which were in a RAID1 setup is also one which isn't much of an option for people with less IT knowledge. I used VMWare, a Linux-distro (forgot which one) and was able to access the data and restore it from one of the drives to the other in a new ReadyNAS Ultra2, which was wiped the minute you insert the disk into the unit.
My question is this: what are the options we have in case of a full ReadyNAS 214 system failure like described above?
Hopefully we can just move the disks to the new unit in the correct bay order.
Sort of just like that, without the necessity to do this one disk at a time.
Don't forget the fact that in (my) case (of) a ReadyNAS 214 full system crash a 4x 4TB in RAID5 means a potential 11,9TB of data loss when you can't move these disks from the dead unit to a new one without blinking an eye.
Personally I can't afford the risk of that amount of data loss which is why I bought the thing in the first place ;-).
Nor is it much of an option (for me) to buy 4 brand new 4TB (or larger) disks in one go, they are kinda unpleasantly costly still.. :'(
Is there anything extremely clever up in the sleeves of Netgear development guys that can avoid the dataloss and just move the disks from one unit to a new one?
Best regards!
Demon666 wrote:
About the ReadyNAS 214.
Way back in time I once ran into the bad luck my ReadyNAS Ultra2 unit itself crashed.
Back then that meant you were in bad luck as Raidiator apparently wrote part of it's information onto the disks in the system that were system specific and rendered the disk useless in a new ReadyNAS Ultra2. The only way I was able to retrieve the data on the disks which were in a RAID1 setup is also one which isn't much of an option for people with less IT knowledge. I used VMWare, a Linux-distro (forgot which one) and was able to access the data and restore it from one of the drives to the other in a new ReadyNAS Ultra2, which was wiped the minute you insert the disk into the unit.The NAS stores the OS, config and logs on a separate partition on the disks. If the RN214 unit fails you can move the disks to an empty OS6 model.
With your Ultra 2 you could move the disks from a dead unit to an empty RAIDiator-x86 unit (you can also move the disks from the Ultra 2 to an x86 OS6 unit for the purpose of data recovery following a set of instructions, note the RN214 is ARM so not an option for this). If you add a disk to a Ultra 2 unit with a disk already in it the disk you add while the NAS is on will be wiped. If you add the disk while the NAS is off the system will likely fail to boot.
On OS6 models we are much more cautious about wiping disks, but still you should be moving disks to an empty unit.
In any case if the problem is e.g. a full OS partition that will remain when moving the disk to a new unit. There are methods support has to look into problems like that with the appropriate support contract in place. You could find someone on the community can give suggestions if you have an issue like that.
Demon666 wrote:
Don't forget the fact that in (my) case (of) a ReadyNAS 214 full system crash a 4x 4TB in RAID5 means a potential 11,9TB of data loss when you can't move these disks from the dead unit to a new one without blinking an eye.Well there's a reason that we put so much time into backup features. RAID is not a replacement for backups. If data's important to you don't store it in just one place no matter what that place is. I have important data on multiple ReadyNAS units not just one. Some backup to the Cloud, USB etc. There are options.
RAID provides some protection against some problems but it doesn't protect against any and every possible problem.
Demon666 wrote:
Personally I can't afford the risk of that amount of data loss which is why I bought the thing in the first place ;-).
Nor is it much of an option (for me) to buy 4 brand new 4TB (or larger) disks in one go, they are kinda unpleasantly costly still.. :'(Ultimately it's up to you to manage your appetite for risk. We can provide advice. Ultimately I would only advise what I'd consider a sensible thing to do with my own data. I've had some unpleasant data loss experiences before I got a ReadyNAS and I'm keen to avoid others having those issues.
Demon666 wrote:Is there anything extremely clever up in the sleeves of Netgear development guys that can avoid the dataloss and just move the disks from one unit to a new one?
Migration from one NAS unit to another has been possible for several years and it works well with Ultra 2 to Ultra 2. It going smoothly relies on the disks, OS, RAID and volume all being fine which may not be the case.
If your laptop doesn't boot, but the problem is a full hard disk, or a failing hard disk or some other kind of issue with/on the disk then putting the disk in another laptop isn't going to resolve the problem in itself. The same is true with moving disks from one ReadyNAS to another.
Not currently. The Arlo camera's do not support the abiltiy to store images to a local NAS device.
I'll be honest, I'm only posting for the chance to win.
Can I use this as more storage for my DirecTV DVR?
