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NetGear Rn31400 still useable in 2024?
At work while cleaning out some stuff from our data center we came across a netgear rn31400 nas. This was from one of the doctor offices we bought out and put in all of our own equipment. Think the D...
Yea my current setup the Dlink Sharecenter only has the 1Gbit as well and haven't really had issues. I would put these current two 8tb drives in, I have another 8tb that I am not really using and would just grab another and chuck them all in there. Just saw this as a possible way to save some money instead of buying a newer one. I also am not familiar with Netgears NAS at all so have been checking the forums and seeing overall experiences.
Do you have the drive caddies? If not, you'll find them hard to find and somewhat expensive when you do. The power brick is easy to replace.
If someone asked me if buying a used ReadyNAS is a good investment for someone with no ReadyNAS experience, I'd say no. But for just the cost of a power supply and some drives, I'll say yes.
BTW, I believe it's better to not fill the unit with drives from the start. Start off with two or three that have more then enough space for your current use. You can later expand by adding a drive a lot cheaper than replacing more than one. And all the drives won't be the same age, so likely won't fail around the same time (if you keep them long enough for that.
Has all the drive caddies and power brick just came a few hours ago and it boots up. Just trying to decide on drives now.
Anything I should check for on this before I start going crazy on it? Fan spins display looks good. Haven't hopped into yet to look around.We just cleared out of our old data center 4 equallogic PS6100s and 7 of the equallogic ps4000s. So many drives and just cracked me up thinking about the size of them and how that use to be so much storage. Now all those drives are getting shredded and the servers getting recycled.
Don't bother looking at the hardware compatibility list, it's woefully out of date. The only thing I can say is to avoid SMR drives. Most <6TB desktop drives and even the so-called "NAS" WD Red ones are SMR. You will have major issues with sustained uploads and with maintenance functions with them.
WD Red Plus and Red Pro are CMR, as are Seagate Ironwolf and pretty much any enterprise drive not labeled as "archive". Unless you have a cheap source, enterprise are generally overkill in a desktop NAS.
You can throw just any old SATA drive in just to see that it works and update the firmware. If it's just one (so no RAID), then SMR is OK. Any data on it will be lost, and it's best to connect it to a PC and remove any existing partitions before you use it in the NAS. The NAS will format it using a Linux format.
I've had really good luck with the WD blues previously and will probably grab those again. I have 2 of them in the sharecenter I have been running for awhile so that way they will all be same rpms.
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