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abarbarelli
Jan 30, 2018Follower
Ready nas 516 exspansion
Hi to all,
our costumer have a readynas 516 and need to expand to more volume, i have noticed that the eda500 is no longer available,
what i can connetc to this nas to expand?
there are any chassis compatible to connect 4 disk directly to e-sata?
2 Replies
- mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee Retired
It would be much better to add another ReadyNAS to your network.
- SandsharkSensei
See here: ReadyNAS-516-Expansion-chassis-options.
I also have a couple of ED500's. I don't find themn all that much slower for normal operations, but defrag, balance and most especially scrub are very slow compared to the main array.
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