ReadyNAS 516 - Making continual wurring noise?

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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. 

 

 

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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.

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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.