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How to Upgrade the CPU and RAM in a ReadyNAS 516
Well I have done it. It seems to be working great. I've ran a few basic tests and you really don't get a idea of the differance without accessing it. you can notice the speed Improvment. Accessin...
Hello, I have a few questions if any of you get a chance to read this i would like your input on.
i currently have 2x RN 516 units with Firmware 6.6.1
the 1 i use as a full Backup system for my 3 macs and 5 ipads as well as my photography hobby and my iTunes Library and part of my Plex library. with all 6x trays filled by wd red 4 tb drives, and i got that nas new off amazon in feb 2015. the 2x 516 is one i got of ebay used and it was upgraded with the same ram as you have in this post, and it is sitting empty untill i get the 6x new Ironwolf 10tb nas drives :D .
1. i am thinking of taking the 1 that is with out warranty with the upgraded ram and adding the cpu you have in the post, but the ones i see keep comming up used even the one on newegg are.
2. are you running any kind of raid my current main is running raid 10 with the 6x 4tb drives i get 10.90tb of total space.
3. i am thinking of using a different raid that would give me even more space with the 6x 10tb drives any recommendations on this? or should i just stick with the raid 10 since that system will be my new dedicated Plex server.
After i move all my currenly ripped MKV format dvds = 305 and 20 blurays till i get the new system set up and can add the rest of the over 200+ blurays that need ripped as well as the 900+ dvds using MakeMKV with all english audio options and english subtitles as well a rip all 818 cds in flac format using LXD, and FileBot for the labeling of the movies and MusicBrainz Picard for cd labeling my small Library.
any imput is welcome from any and all that have exp in this subject and Thank you in advance :D
LeonCCnGeOcKbel wrote:
2. are you running any kind of raid my current main is running raid 10 with the 6x 4tb drives i get 10.90tb of total space.
3. i am thinking of using a different raid that would give me even more space with the 6x 10tb drives any recommendations on this? or should i just stick with the raid 10 since that system will be my new dedicated Plex server.
RAID-10 will give you 30 TB (~27.2 TiB).
RAID-5 gives the most capacity (50 TB), but I think I'd go for more protection with a volume this size.
RAID-6 is one option. That gives you 40 TB (~36.3 TiB). It would perform well enough for plex, since read performance will be fine. Write performance is less, but your media library is mostly read. The challlenge will be the resync times. The benefit is the strongest protection from drive failures.
But I kind of like the newly supported RAID-50 mode for this. That would give you the same space as RAID-6. Protection is not as good as RAID-6 but you'd still survive 2 disk failures 60% of the time. Performance and resync times should be better than RAID-6, though somewhat worse than RAID-10.
If you have a backup (not easy with this much data) then I'd pick RAID-50. Otherwise RAID-6.
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