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ReadyNAS 516 - Making continual wurring noise?
Hi all
I have recently purchased a Netgear ReadyNAS 516 and installed x4 brand new 6TB Seagate NAS HDD - ST60000VN0021
I have also upgarded the firmware to the latest version 6.6.0
Upon turning on the device and letting the drives sync data I have not installed any apps, nor have I copied all my exisiting data as I am unsure as to best way to setup.
Firstly, I am a little disappointed with the maount of noise the device makes when not even being accessed. It is contiually making a wurrring sound which is quite annoying when located in the home office. Is this normal for a Netgear Device? Have I got is on a setting that makes this noise? Is there a way to reduce the noise? Is it the brand or quality of Hard Drive I have installed? ....Although none of the LEDs are flashing.
Secondly, which RAID setup would be better. I purchased x4 6TB drives with the following intentions....
1st Hard Drive - This was going to be a drive where I was going to make it like a central server for all the family to have access to files in a systematic way.
2nd Hard Drive - I was going to use this drive as a mirror or backup of the first drive
3rd Drive - I was going to copy all my families existing files into one location as a starting point. All the files are unsorted and now one really know where anything is.
4th Drive - This was going to be a mirror or backup of the 3rd drive.
Upon learning about striping drives, I am unsure if the above secenario is still applicable. Should I just dump all my existing files into a folder called Old Backup and sort the files into new folders all within the striped drive...hope this makes sense.
I would be interested in other peoples opinions and advice.
Cheers
Kezooz
If you go to System > Volumes and hover your mouse over a disk there will be a popup with some information including the disk firmware version.
If you download the logs you can also see the disk firmware version in some of the logs.You could hook the disks up to your PC and run the disk firmware update on them.
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Kezooz wrote:
Upon learning about striping drives, I am unsure if the above secenario is still applicable. Should I just dump all my existing files into a folder called Old Backup and sort the files into new folders all within the striped drive...hope this makes sense.
If you are using XRAID, then what you have is a single 18 TB volume (~16.4 TiB). You can't allocate shares to particular drives in the volume.
What you could do is destroy the current volume, and create 4 volumes of 6 TB each (jbod). You'd have no RAID redundancy. I think you are better off with XRAID. You can set quotas on shares if you want to limit space usage.
I'm not sure what you are asking on "Old Backup". Generally I've found that it is good to organize the storage into multiple shares, but some folks certainly do use just one.
Kezooz wrote:
Firstly, I am a little disappointed with the maount of noise the device makes when not even being accessed. It is contiually making a wurrring sound which is quite annoying when located in the home office. Is this normal for a Netgear Device? Have I got is on a setting that makes this noise? \
Noise level does depend on the drives, though of course the system board also generates heat, and needs to be cooled. Try enabling disk spindown on the power menu - that should reduce the noise level when the NAS isn't in use. If the unit is on a desk, you might also try moving it to floor-level, so you are not directly in line with the sound.
Which disk firmware is on these disks? Is it SC60? There is a SC61 firmware update for the disks you have which should help with the disk noise: https://community.netgear.com/t5/ReadyNAS-Hardware-Compatibility/Avoid-Seagate-ST8000VN0002-Horrible-noise-issue/m-p/1161653#M14883
Whilst the thread is for the ST8000VN0002 the Release Notes for the disk firmware update mention that the firmware update is also for your ST6000VN0021 disks.
Thanks for the post mdgm. I have followed through the links and downloaded the firmware update.
I do have a question though, how do I find out the firmware that is on the disks when I have them installed in the NAS?
Also, how do I install the firmware on the x4 disks that are installed in the NAS?
Thanks for the post StephenB. I have just made adjustment to the power settings and finally I have peace and quiet.
I did see an option below whereby I could wake the NAS via LAN. As soon as I ticked that box, the noise came back straight away which nulified the power setting :(
In any case I will continue with the disk spin down after 5 mins.
Im a bit confused with XRAID answer though. What is no RAID redundancy? What does jbod stand for?
And if I cant share individual drives within a RAID volume, can I still create shares of various folders in the RAID?
If I were to go with FlexiRAID, does this mean I would need to manually backup 2 of the drives to the other 2 drives, or will they be mirrored automatically?
Is there a difference between having a backupas opposed to having a mirrored disk? To me they both create a second copy of your data dont they?
I guess Im after a setup so that if obe of the hard disks do fail, I have somewhere a copy of all the data of that disk that easy to be swapped.
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