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ReadyNAS 204 or 314?
Hi, I am looking at buying a new ReadyNAS. I had a 104 a few years ago and it was so slow I ended up returning it as it was not suitable. I have since seen the 204 is avaiable and I wonde...
I would suggest that you disable bitrot protection and snapshots on the iSCSI LUN to be used with ESXi. VMs involve a lot of small writes and with lots of writes and CoW or snapshots (well snapshots use CoW at the point in time the snapshot is taken) you will quickly get a lot of fragmentation.
Not sure where you saw that the 204 would take larger disks than the 314. The 314 would be a better choice than the 204 for using high capacity disks. We have a compatibility list: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20641
We have a limitation on current firmware on the 204 where snapshots do not work on volumes > 16TB. This will be addressed in a future release. With 4x6TB disks you will get a RAID-5 volume > 16TB.
mdgm wrote:
Not sure where you saw that the 204 would take larger disks than the 314. The 314 would be a better choice than the 204 for using high capacity disks. We have a compatibility list: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20641
I believe the OP meant that the 204 takes bigger disks than the 104. That's true because of the 16 TiB volume limit on the RN100 series.
mdgm wrote:
We have a limitation on current firmware on the 204 where snapshots do not work on volumes > 16TB. This will be addressed in a future release. With 4x6TB disks you will get a RAID-5 volume > 16TB.
Good to know, I hadn't seen that posted here.
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