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4TB disks on ReadyNas Ultra 6?
I just bought a ReadyNAS ULTRA 6 for a great price of less than USD 600,- including a 2TB Seagate disk. Waste of space with only 1 x 2TB, so need to get some new disks... The plan was to fill it up w...
marky wrote: if you are willing to factory reset, you can put 6 x 4tb hard drives in the Ultra 6 and have a usable volume thats > 16TB??
Yes, you can put all 6 drives in and then factory default. If you choose to format your RAID array as RAID-5 (single-disk redundancy), you will end up with an array of approximately 20TB.
Doing that, though, is probably a bad idea. When a drive fails in a RAID5 array, your data will be unprotected from further failures until you replace the failed drive and rebuild... But with an array that large, it would not be unexpected for an error to appear on one of the other drives during the rebuild. A better plan would be to format the 6x4TB array as RAID6, which will provide two-disk redundancy. You'll "only" get 16TB, but your setup will be much more reliable.
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