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3TB or 4TB HDD recommendation for Readynas RN516
Hi, I am thinking of upgrading my old NV+ V1 for a while. Now that the RN516 is getting cheaper I think I will buy the RN516 diskless version in 2 or 3 months. But at the moment I have one probl...
Yes I think the Seagate 4TB NAS drive ST4000VN000 is a good choice.
According to the datasheet:
Reliability
Load/Unload 600.000 cycles should be a good value
Temperature during operation is 34°C which is also good I think.
But I am a bit confused about the fact the drive should be used in an 1-5 bay NAS System?
Number of Drive Bays Supported
1 to 5
Does that mean they did not guarantee a proper operation of the drive in a 6 bay NAS? What about the Netgear support then?
Just another quick offtopic question: How do I calculate the real available free disk space in the NAS?
(6 bay NAS, 4TB hard disks with single redundancy and the same with dual redundancy with two drives for redundancy )
Does that mean:
1) I have 5x 4TB = 20TB free space available and 1x 4TB for redundancy
2) I have 4x 4TB = 16TB free space available and 2x 4TB for redundancy ?
Is this assumption correct?
Is it possible to start with single redundancy and later convert/switch to dual redundancy without data loss?
Or do I need to backup the data first and then switch to dual redundancy and then copy the data back to the NAS?
If "online conversion" works will I loose free disk space for conversion? Or do I need to do a factory reset and start from scratch?
According to the datasheet:
Reliability
Load/Unload 600.000 cycles should be a good value
Temperature during operation is 34°C which is also good I think.
But I am a bit confused about the fact the drive should be used in an 1-5 bay NAS System?
Number of Drive Bays Supported
1 to 5
Does that mean they did not guarantee a proper operation of the drive in a 6 bay NAS? What about the Netgear support then?
Just another quick offtopic question: How do I calculate the real available free disk space in the NAS?
(6 bay NAS, 4TB hard disks with single redundancy and the same with dual redundancy with two drives for redundancy )
Does that mean:
1) I have 5x 4TB = 20TB free space available and 1x 4TB for redundancy
2) I have 4x 4TB = 16TB free space available and 2x 4TB for redundancy ?
Is this assumption correct?
Is it possible to start with single redundancy and later convert/switch to dual redundancy without data loss?
Or do I need to backup the data first and then switch to dual redundancy and then copy the data back to the NAS?
If "online conversion" works will I loose free disk space for conversion? Or do I need to do a factory reset and start from scratch?
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