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How much does a drives RPM make a difference?
I have two ReadyNAS NV+ units that I use in a home environment. One of the NV+ units is used to back up some (but not all) of the data from the primary NV+ unit. I have 5 Macs, two AppleTVs, two TiV...
If the D-Link is still viable and has not been cannibalized, you could maybe put two 1.5GB drives in it and use it as a server for video files that don't change. I don't know if it will work as a video file server or not, just a suggestion to maybe help pull some of the files off the NV+ to gain some space.
Last year when my NV+ was filling up, I bit the bullet and went with an NVX (replaced in the market by the Ultra 4) and just recently had to expand it with 2x3TB drives. When you add the next ReadyNAS, the x-86 units using X-Raid2 have this nice feature of layering the volume so you don't have to replace all the drives. I have 2x3TB and 2x1TB drives replacing the 4x1TB drives and my volume is now 4.5TB instead of 2.7 with the 4x1TB drives. The removed 1TB drives went into my NV+ which serves as a second backup of critical files.
Last year when my NV+ was filling up, I bit the bullet and went with an NVX (replaced in the market by the Ultra 4) and just recently had to expand it with 2x3TB drives. When you add the next ReadyNAS, the x-86 units using X-Raid2 have this nice feature of layering the volume so you don't have to replace all the drives. I have 2x3TB and 2x1TB drives replacing the 4x1TB drives and my volume is now 4.5TB instead of 2.7 with the 4x1TB drives. The removed 1TB drives went into my NV+ which serves as a second backup of critical files.
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