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Looking to fit 3TB Enterprise drives to ReadyNAS Duo or NV+
I currently have 2x Seagate ST31000340NS in a ReadyNAS Duo (RND2000 v2), and would like to increase the capacity to 3TB with a pair of the Seagate ST33000650NS drives. Could anyone offer some advice ...
I have a further question or two, now that I have my NV+ V2 but have yet to purchase drives.
I am looking at the 4TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000, which I know is not on the HCL but others seem confident in the Hitachis. I am sure the Seagate would also work, but that is a whole 1TB less space, and more than twice the price (what am I paying for with the Seagate?), so for the price of two Seagates I could fill my NV+ V2 with 4TB drives, mirrored that should make close to 16TB! Is that correct?
If I fit just two of the 4TB Hitachi drives to start off with, would I run into problems later if, somehow, 8TB hard drives came into being and I wanted to fit either 2x 8TB for mirrored drives or 4 x 8TB for a single RAID volume?
Could I fit a single hard drive which I intend to match with an identical hard drive later for a mirrored volume?
How much space would 4x 8TB give me as a single RAID, potentially, if the NV+ V2 could handle them after having two mirrored volumes of 2x 4TB drives each?
I have read another thread about a 6 bay ReadyNAS that has an upgrade limit of 4TB I think above the original factory installation - is this only when upgrading an existing RAID, would the same limitation apply to a mirrored volume (replace one of the drives with a larger one, sync, then replace the other in the same mirror)?
Could the 4TB upgrade limit be bypassed by performing a factory reset with much larger drives in?
What is the practical limit for hard drive size for the current NV+ V2?
I am looking at the 4TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000, which I know is not on the HCL but others seem confident in the Hitachis. I am sure the Seagate would also work, but that is a whole 1TB less space, and more than twice the price (what am I paying for with the Seagate?), so for the price of two Seagates I could fill my NV+ V2 with 4TB drives, mirrored that should make close to 16TB! Is that correct?
If I fit just two of the 4TB Hitachi drives to start off with, would I run into problems later if, somehow, 8TB hard drives came into being and I wanted to fit either 2x 8TB for mirrored drives or 4 x 8TB for a single RAID volume?
Could I fit a single hard drive which I intend to match with an identical hard drive later for a mirrored volume?
How much space would 4x 8TB give me as a single RAID, potentially, if the NV+ V2 could handle them after having two mirrored volumes of 2x 4TB drives each?
I have read another thread about a 6 bay ReadyNAS that has an upgrade limit of 4TB I think above the original factory installation - is this only when upgrading an existing RAID, would the same limitation apply to a mirrored volume (replace one of the drives with a larger one, sync, then replace the other in the same mirror)?
Could the 4TB upgrade limit be bypassed by performing a factory reset with much larger drives in?
What is the practical limit for hard drive size for the current NV+ V2?
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