Netgear RN21400

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jmephotoart wrote:

 

Does anyone know if the ReadyNas 214, 4 bay can do the following.

 

• set up with 2x4tb drives in raid 1, initialy. WD RED
• copy my existing files to the new raid 1 array
• put in the 2x3tb drives from my old nas, WD RED
• format them for the new nas as another raid 1 array

Therefore having two raid 1 arrays , 1x4tb and 1x3tb ?

The data would then be split , the 4tb raid 1 would have all my photography work, the 3tb raid 1 would have the rest of my data.

 

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Yes it can.  Do the initial install with the 2x4TB in the NAS, and immediately change to FlexRaid.  Then you can add the two old disks, reformat them in the NAS, and create a second volume.  Home shares would also be on the first volume - if you don't use them, then you can just disable the file sharing protocols for "home".

FWIW, if you decide on a single volume, you need to start with the 3 TB drives instead.  With XRAID, you could add 4 TB drives to a 3 TB array, but you couldn't add 3 TB drives to a 4 TB array. 

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jmephotoart wrote:

 

So they would look like two drives on the network 

Not quite.  The volumes aren't advertised on the network - just the shares.  So you'd just see all the shares - the same as if you had a single volume.

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jmephotoart wrote:

 

• set up with 2x4tb drives in raid 1, initially. WD RED

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Use the RED Plus (WD40EFRX), not the RED (WD40EFAX).  

WD rebranded a bit - the WD RED line now contains SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) drives, which aren't good options for RAID.  The RED Plus line is CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recordings).