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My Experience with NVX BE and 4x WD60EFRX 6TB Drives
All, I recently decided to upgrade my trusty NVX Business Edition ReadyNAS from 4x 1TB drives to 4x 6TB drives. After reading many posts on these forums I quickly realised that 6TB drives were not ...
Assuming there is a limit of 16TB per volume then multiple volumes should be O.K. however any given disk can only be included in two volumes.
So say 12TB drives work in the future I think it might be possible to create two volumes of 16TB each.
Of course it would be preferable to get a newer system.
The NVX (BE) and NVX Pioneer models are the only desktop ReadyNAS units with an Intel 32-bit CPU.
All our other desktop ReadyNAS units with Intel CPUs have 64-bit ones and support volumes larger than 16TB (though on RAIDiator-x86 4.2.x you cannot expand past 16TB you have to do a factory default with the drives in place).
I would suggest you move to a newer ReadyNAS before you next need higher capacity disks.
Oh and with a 16TB volume I would strongly recommend you maintain regular backups (which you should do anyway) if the NAS is primary storage for important data.
So say 12TB drives work in the future I think it might be possible to create two volumes of 16TB each.
Of course it would be preferable to get a newer system.
The NVX (BE) and NVX Pioneer models are the only desktop ReadyNAS units with an Intel 32-bit CPU.
All our other desktop ReadyNAS units with Intel CPUs have 64-bit ones and support volumes larger than 16TB (though on RAIDiator-x86 4.2.x you cannot expand past 16TB you have to do a factory default with the drives in place).
I would suggest you move to a newer ReadyNAS before you next need higher capacity disks.
Oh and with a 16TB volume I would strongly recommend you maintain regular backups (which you should do anyway) if the NAS is primary storage for important data.
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