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janpeter1
Jun 27, 2015Luminary
Likely Readynas 3-series
Hello, I plan to upgrade from my ReadyNAS Duo that served me well for 5+ years running 2x2TB in Raid 1. Consider to buy 2- or 4-bay (or even 6-bay hope not) NAS and it is for home use with small o...
- Aug 04, 2015
You could put a suggestion in the Feature Request & Feedback subforum.
You could also make a request at rnxtras.com (not a netgear site)
StephenB
Jul 02, 2015Guru - Experienced User
No issue here with quoting prices, though if a seller were to abuse that I'd at least warn them, or possibly ban. Not sure what other mods would do. Overall, policies here are quite permissive.
CLHatch wrote: Don't know what the policy of "advertising" retailers in public is
Amazon US pricing today has a gap of only $40 between the RN314 and the RN316 (both diskless). That makes going with the 316 a no-brainer.
The gap between the RN312 and the RN316 is $140, so budget for home users might start to kick in there. Though if you look at the analysis I posted earlier, you recover that extra money (and more) the first time you need to expand your storage.
Mdgm replied, but the more succinct answer is "no".
janpeter wrote: I guess this link is relevant https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID56 right?
BTRFS has some experimental features that integrate RAID into the file system itself. They are interesting for the future, but not ready yet - and Netgear isn't using them.
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