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ReadyNAS Duo v2 and larger then 4TB disks?
My old beta Duo v2 unit is suffering a hard drive failure, and I'm pondering what to do with it long term. Currently it has two Seagate 2TB drives. Last week, the second drive went offline which ...
You should be able to use 4 TB drives in your NAS devices that run RAIDiator 5.3. The compatibilty list is just a list of tested drives we know worked when we tried it. You use unsupported drives at your own risk.
OS 6 does have bit rot protection, so I am a little confused on why you don't think an RN2xx device wouldn't suit you (more RAM than RN100 series, better processor, more cores).
You would probably want to consider using new drives in an OS 6 box and then using backup job to move your data from NAS to NAS.
kohdee wrote:
OS 6 does have bit rot protection, so I am a little confused on why you don't think an RN2xx device wouldn't suit you (more RAM than RN100 series, better processor, more cores).
I think the OP was meaning to say that the v2 can't be upgraded to OS 6.
StephenB wrote:
I think the OP was meaning to say that the v2 can't be upgraded to OS 6.They can be upgraded to run OS 6 but it is not supported and would still require a factory default. OS 6 on 256 MB of RAM though is painful.
What I'd like to do is get a pair of 6TB or 8TB disks to put in the Duo v2. That would let me fully mirror my Ultra 4 unit, and then factory default it to run OS 6 there.
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