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ReadyNAS 516 Best Practice
Two questions: First, I'm about to replace a disk (smaller disk with a bigger one). Is it best to shut down the box (to take out a 4TB drive and replace it with an 8TB) or can you simply do a hot sw...
Hot swap is best. You can wait till you're sure the NAS has detected the removal before insertion.
Two Ethenet connections wihtout link agregation is not only not helping, it can cause issues. And if something were to happen to your switch that "blew out" the NAS port, it would do it on both.
Sandshark wrote:
Hot swap is best. You can wait till you're sure the NAS has detected the removal before insertion.
I always do hot-swap myself (and recommend it here). The NAS detects the removal and insertion, and that triggers the resync. When you replace a disk with the NAS shut down, then it needs to figure out what you've done. Both methods should work though.
Sandshark wrote:
Two Ethenet connections wihtout link agregation is not only not helping, it can cause issues. And if something were to happen to your switch that "blew out" the NAS port, it would do it on both.
Yes. You can use ALB or TLB aggregation with a "dumb" switch, but you shouldn't just connect the two NIC ports. And even ALB/TLB can cause some issues in the clients.
If you are mostly accessing the NAS from one client at a time over gigabit, then there is no speed benefit from connecting both NICs even with link aggregation (since the connection from the switch to the client is still capped at 1 gigabit). There can be some speed up if you have multiple clients that are also connected to the same swtich as the NAS. But it sounds like you aren't doing that.
So just disconnect the second ethernet port.
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