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New ReadyNas system, existing drives with data
Good afternoon, I was looking forward to purchasing one of the readynas devices, but I had 1 question. I have 2 500GB SATA drives in a linux box (ext 3, mirror via rsync) that I'd like to use in t...
The quick way to tell a v1 from a v2 is to look at the model number. The Duo starts with RND2 and three digits describing the included disks (000 being diskless) followed by a hyphen and then a 100 for v1 and 200 for v2. The last part is the region. (NAS for North America, EUS for Europe). Thus a diskless model in Switzerland would be RND2000-100EUS for a v1 and RND2000-200EUS for v2. (I am assuming that the standard EUS model is sold throughout the EU.
While the v2 model uses an ARM processor (Marvell) and is much faster than the v1 (Sparc processor) and has the new Frontview interface, it does lack at this point some of the file services that the v1 has supported. This may change with future upgrades, but at the current time I do not believe it supports NFS or rsysnc. Rsync is very slow for the initial backup which is why most recommend NFS for the initial backup job in Frontview and then switch to rsync and run it again. This verifies the backup and should take just a few minutes. Many times, if I have copied up some critical/important data such as photos from my camera, I will go into Frontview and manually run the backup job for that share. After it completes in a few minutes, and I have the data on both my NAS units, I will then and only then erase it from the camera SD card. Here in the US, the v2 is about 10% more expensive than the v1.
You may also want to consider the Ultra 2 which is Intel x-86 based (as is the vast majority of the ReadyNAS family). It uses the Atom D410 processor, is faster than the v1 Duo (about equal to the v2 I believe), has 1GB of memory and runs all the addons of the x-86 family (Ultra, Ultra Plus and Pro as well as the older NVX and Pro v1 models). In the US the Ultra 2 is about 50% more expensive than the Duo v2.
The procedure to move your data would be the same regardless of which NAS (even the competitors) you decide on. All NAS units will format and partition a new drive for their system.
While the v2 model uses an ARM processor (Marvell) and is much faster than the v1 (Sparc processor) and has the new Frontview interface, it does lack at this point some of the file services that the v1 has supported. This may change with future upgrades, but at the current time I do not believe it supports NFS or rsysnc. Rsync is very slow for the initial backup which is why most recommend NFS for the initial backup job in Frontview and then switch to rsync and run it again. This verifies the backup and should take just a few minutes. Many times, if I have copied up some critical/important data such as photos from my camera, I will go into Frontview and manually run the backup job for that share. After it completes in a few minutes, and I have the data on both my NAS units, I will then and only then erase it from the camera SD card. Here in the US, the v2 is about 10% more expensive than the v1.
You may also want to consider the Ultra 2 which is Intel x-86 based (as is the vast majority of the ReadyNAS family). It uses the Atom D410 processor, is faster than the v1 Duo (about equal to the v2 I believe), has 1GB of memory and runs all the addons of the x-86 family (Ultra, Ultra Plus and Pro as well as the older NVX and Pro v1 models). In the US the Ultra 2 is about 50% more expensive than the Duo v2.
The procedure to move your data would be the same regardless of which NAS (even the competitors) you decide on. All NAS units will format and partition a new drive for their system.
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