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Changing Drives
Good Morning All, I have a ReadyNAS 214 set up with 4 x 4tb drives, set to RAID 5, providing 10.9TB of space. When it comes to wanting more storage space, I will obviously have to replace the dr...
Thank you for your advice.
You mention 'the built in backup is not compressed'. is there something available that is not built in that i can use that will compress the backup?
JJ0161 wrote:
You mention 'the built in backup is not compressed'. is there something available that is not built in that i can use that will compress the backup?
Not sure what you mean by "available". I don't know of anything from Netgear or in the third party app store. The NAS runs linux, if you use ssh you'd find that zip is installed. Other linux tools could in principle be installed that can create a compressed archive. But there is nothing I know of for sale (or freeware) that explicitly supports ReadyNAS.
Also, you should be aware that most media (mp3, flac, mp4, mkv, avi, jpg, etc), is already compressed - and trying to compress it again generally won't save much (if any) space.
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