4tb drive support

When the other thread stated that 3rd party development ceased, he was referring to the Linux community. In order to redo the foundation upon which the sparc version of Raidiator is based, the ReadyNAS team would have to have the resources that the Linux community has, which they don't, and then develop it for what is frankly an obsolete platform. I know that sounds harsh, but I have a trusty 4 year old NV+ myself. When it was developed 6 years ago, it was a good competitor, but they did what Apple and other device manufacturers have done and converted to the faster more powerful x86 platform which is still developing. Even my NVX is discontinued as it was 32bit and now all the new units (Ultras and Pros) are 64bit. Even my NVX unit is 3x as fast in file transfer than my NV+.

I moved from my NV+ and 500GB drives to my NVX with 1TB drives and have now expanded the NVX partially with 2x3Tb drives and 2x1TB drives. Another feature of the x86 platform is the ability to layer the array so that you can have 2 different drive sizes and use all the space (once you have achieved redundancy with two of the larger drives).

You might want to go ahead and consider an Ultra or a Pro with 3TB drives, and use the NV+ for at least a partial backup of the critical files using rsync. This is an extremely fast NAS to NAS backup method. All ReadyNAS units have this ability, although not all the competitors do. The Ultra4s and Pro4s are as well built as your NV+ and should be as reliable. I love my NVX and even my old friend, my NV+, still chugging along.