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ReadyNAS 312 swapping HDD for SSD, filesystems, data transfer
Hi, i am looking for the easiest solution.. ReadyNAS 312, only 2 bay NAS device having only primary HDD for ages in slot 1 so it contains ReadyNAS OS install + data recently i have connected ...
Ok, i understand. There is no problem for me with having OS at every disk drive, altought its unusual. But 4GB so who cares.
So basically.. yes i use FLEX RAID and JBOD for all drives.. the easiest and recommended is...........
Leaving current (data) HDD1 in slot 1, removing (currenty empty) SSD from slot 2, and connecting new HDD2 to slot 2?
Then transfering data.. from old HDD1 to HDD2 i would probably use ssh and linux commands or samba and total commander .. but it would be probably transfer speed of half of network speed, doing this from PC with windows via network?
Then removing old HDD1 from slot 1 and inserting SSD to slot 1. Then should OS to SSD install.
I have no usage for SSD except system and maybe some marginal data, but i could make shares.
I presume, NAS boots from slot 1 as preferred, when two drives are connected, right?
Another option would be connecting old data drive to Windows PC, but im not sure what pick or howto read BTFRS in windows easily and transfer files simultaneously via network to NAS. Or first to PC NFTS filesystem and to NAS via network as second step.
Regarding parallel writing from OS to both drives, system partitions.. it probably does when installing programs, apps, right? But does this happen, include, even when doing changes via SSH, like apt-get install packages, update, etc? Editing selected files and so?
If you mix an SSD with a spinning drive, you will gain no significant speed in OS operations. You would gain speed only for files stored on the SSD JBOD volume. That's because RAID doesn't work the way you seem to think it does -- it doesn't use one drive alone with the other as a backup. Besides, the most important OS processes are running continuously in RAM, not executed on demand from the OS partition.
Unless I'm missing something as to your final goal, IMHO, you're better off just adding HDD2 as a second JBOD volume and leave the SSD out of the NAS. Of course, you still should insure you have a backup, and backup on a separate JBOD volume on the same NAS is a very risky way to do that, as both volumes could be destroyed by a hardware failure.
What exactly is it that's running too slowly on your NAS? There may be a way to speed it up, just not what you think it is.
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