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balrog90
Jun 13, 2017Aspirant
Hard Disk and Ready NAS 1500
Hi .I have a problem. My company bought ReadyNas 1500 in 2013. Today free space is end. Can I buy disk more than 2 TB for NAS. Will readynas 1500 work with 4 or 6 TB disks ?
balrog90
Jun 14, 2017Aspirant
I am sorry but i dont undestand that you write .Can you give shot answer for que. Can i buy 4-6 TB disks and put them into NAS or not.
In manual for 1500 readynas if find that -----Maximum disk drive size 3 TB with RAIDiator 4.2.16 and newer and 2 TB wither earlier versions of RAIDiator.
StephenB
Jun 14, 2017Guru - Experienced User
balrog90 wrote:
I am sorry but i dont undestand that you write .Can you give shot answer for que. Can i buy 4-6 TB disks and put them into NAS or not.
You can, but you will need to do a factory reset with all the new disks in place. Then rebuild the NAS and reload the data from backup.
Also, you won't be able to use XRAID expansion after that - so future storage upgrades would need to be done the same way.
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