NAS with SSD drives

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milbeck wrote:

 

[NETGEAR ReadyNAS 314 4-Bay]

But I want to upgrade my spinning disks to SSD.

So I have tried searching for a similar product that supports SSD drives and have not been able to locate.

 

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Your current RN314 supports 2.5" SATA SSDs.  

 

You do need to remove the tool-less plastic inserts in the trays, and screw the SSDs into the bottom of the tray. See page 171 in the hardware manual here: https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-100/ReadyNAS_%20OS6_Desktop_HM_EN.pdf

 

Hopefully you kept the screws that came with your NAS - but if you lost them, you can purchase replacements (let us know here, and we can provide info on the size you need).

 

There is a compatibility list here: https://kb.netgear.com/20641/ReadyNAS-Hard-Disk-Compatibility-List  Note that this is just disks Netgear has tested, there are likely others that will work.

 

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milbeck wrote:

But I want to upgrade my spinning disks to SSD.

 

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If you use just SSDs, you'd be limited to 4x4TB right now, and the cost would be ~$1800 USD at current prices.

 

There is also a hybrid mode that you could look at, called ReadyTier. You could use 2x12TB RAID-1 mechanical disks (or larger), and create an SSD Tier using smaller SSDs - for instance, 2x2TB.  That would cost less (~$1000 USD), and in many cases would give similar performance.

 

You could also just have two volumes - two mechanical disks (RAID-1) in the first volume, and two SSDs (also RAID-1) in a second volume.  Then put the shares that can benefit most from the higher performance of SSDs on the second volume.