New disks for my ReadyNAS NV

From my experience you better stay away from the 524AS - by now I've replaced a whooping 24 of those in active ReadyNAS systems.

-Stefan

I'm not sure what you mean by the 5200's, as most of the "green" drives are 5400 to 5900 RPM. You might want to consider the Samsung HD204UI drives. They are on the NV approved list, are 2TB and seem to have a good approval from users. They have an 83% 4 and 5 rating on the Newegg website. They are reported as 5400RPM drives, but that should not be a problem and the real bottleneck is the CPU. I have a pair of Hitachi 3TB green drives in an NVX and have not really noticed any difference in file transfer speed after changing from 7200 RPM 1TB drives.

My mistake, I did mean 5400 - long day trying to recover my crashed NV :-(

Given Stefan's feedback I will avoid the 524AS and follow PapaBear's recommendation for the 204UI

Thanks

Phil

Seeing that the HD204UI is a 4k sector disk, I would suggest you backup your data, upgrade to the latest RAIDiator (should be 4.1.8 by the time you get to this as this will hopefully be released within a few days or so) and do a factory reset, then restore data from backup.

See Why you might want to factory reset a Sparc ReadyNAS

Forgot how complicated this can all be :-) One of the benefits of ReadyNAS - mine has been running 24x7 for the last few years and has not missed a beat until last week, so I have got out of date on what is happening in this area.

Good call about the 4k. At the moment my plans are slightly changing in that I may simply replace the failed disk in my NV and buy an Ultra 4 with 4 x 2 TB disks.

Phil

That's also a good plan. This would give you a nice performance benefit. You could then transfer the data from the NV (Sparc ReadyNAS) across the network to the Ultra 4 (x86 ReadyNAS) and then use the NV as a backup NAS.

That was the plan; I am thinking the extra back-up of having key shares on the Ultra being backing up to the NV would be worth it

Phil

Doing the same thing here with the slight modification that the NV is pulling backups from more sources than just my Pro at regular intervals.

-Stefan

When I got my first NVX my NV+ was the primary backup. Then I got a good deal on a second NVX and the NV+ is not the critical second backup of the primary (full) backup. My NV+ has been chugging along happily for over 4 years now, and is on it's second HD upgrade. Maybe 2TBs are in the future for it.