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ready nas ultra 6 Drive expansion with 6tb drives
Hi, Can someone tell me if I can install 4 x 6tb drives to my Readynas ultra 6 (Clean install)
Would I get the full 18tb(3 x 6tb) with 6tb(1 x 6tb drive) acting as raidx redundancy
shoudl i stick to 4tb drives?
also at moment i have 3 x tb drives with 3 spare bays
As an alternative to above Is it possible to add a second raid volume using 3 x 6tb to get 12tb with 1 drive being redundant and can i co-exist with the original volume
In other words I have 4 x 6tb drives- how best to use them with my 6 bay - 3 drives poulatred with 2tb HDs in place
Thanks
Alan
amcell wrote:
Hi, Can someone tell me if I can install 4 x 6tb drives to my Readynas ultra 6 (Clean install)
You can, and you will get the 18 TB volume. XRAID expansion will fail, so you should use FlexRAID. That will let you add additional disks (as another volume) later on.
amcell wrote:
As an alternative to above Is it possible to add a second raid volume using 3 x 6tb to get 12tb with 1 drive being redundant and can i co-exist with the original volume
You can do that with flexraid, but not the default xraid. And switching to flexraid would require a factory reset.
The net here - a factory reset (or install) is in your future. You should consider switching to OS 6 as part of the upgrade. It will give you more expansion options later on.
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amcell wrote:
Hi, Can someone tell me if I can install 4 x 6tb drives to my Readynas ultra 6 (Clean install)
You can, and you will get the 18 TB volume. XRAID expansion will fail, so you should use FlexRAID. That will let you add additional disks (as another volume) later on.
amcell wrote:
As an alternative to above Is it possible to add a second raid volume using 3 x 6tb to get 12tb with 1 drive being redundant and can i co-exist with the original volume
You can do that with flexraid, but not the default xraid. And switching to flexraid would require a factory reset.
The net here - a factory reset (or install) is in your future. You should consider switching to OS 6 as part of the upgrade. It will give you more expansion options later on.
Thanks for the information and advice. Exactly what i needed
very much appreciated.
Regards
Alan
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