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GaRFIELD1
Mar 26, 2013Aspirant
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...
aussieboxer
Jan 02, 2014Aspirant
Thanks for the reply
Just some clarification
IF one of the ULTRA dies (say in 5 years time but hey I have some servers running VMs at home over double that age) - can I take all the disks out of the other live one one - plug in the disks for the dead ultra 6 (presumably in exactly the same BAY) and it will read it (so I can copy to a new NAS ?)
I run linux Ubuntu but I assume to access them through a PC I would need to
a) plug ALL 6 HDD into the PC and
b) define the volume (?) to linux before if could access the data
I couldn't access them disk by disk I assume
Thanks and sorry to be slow....
Just some clarification
IF one of the ULTRA dies (say in 5 years time but hey I have some servers running VMs at home over double that age) - can I take all the disks out of the other live one one - plug in the disks for the dead ultra 6 (presumably in exactly the same BAY) and it will read it (so I can copy to a new NAS ?)
I run linux Ubuntu but I assume to access them through a PC I would need to
a) plug ALL 6 HDD into the PC and
b) define the volume (?) to linux before if could access the data
I couldn't access them disk by disk I assume
Thanks and sorry to be slow....
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