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Ready NAS 212 - 3 Questions before I buy
I think that the ReadyNAS212 will work for my business but, before I purchase it, I would like to make sure it will do the following 3 things for me. I am looking to back up my 5 office computers to ...
Most people underestimate how much they'll use a NAS before they actually have one. You may want to consider a 4-bay, or even larger, NAS with just the two drives to start. That will make expanding the storage much easier later.
Sandshark wrote:
That will make expanding the storage much easier later.
Also much cheaper over the long run. If you have an empty slot, you can just pop in an additional drive. If not, you need to upgrade two working drives to larger ones.
If you get a 4 bay NAS, and start with 2 disks (XRAID/RAID-1) you can more than triple the starting capacity before you have to upgrade existing drives.
For instance, if you start at 2x8TB you'd have 8 TB of space. Adding an additional 8 TB would double the space to 16 TB, adding another 8 TB you bring you to 24 TB. If you added two 12 TB drives instead, you'd end up with a 30 TB volume.
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