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ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition with Os 6 and upgrade Bios (v2)
Hi all, lately I upgrade my Readynas Pro business Edition with a new CPU (E7600) 4GB of OCZ Platinum PC8500 and latest OS.
So far so good and work great. Now I want to upgrade the Hard drives.
At the moment I have 2 WD Red 3TB and 4 WD RE3 500GB. I planned to buy WD RED or the WD RED Pro. I know the WD Red 3TB is working great and I wanted to know if I can use the WD RED 4TB or WD RED Pro 4TB on my NAS. So I have a mix of size and also RPM speed (The Red at around 5900 RPM and the 500GB at 7200 RPM). I use RAID-X (expandable volume)
Is it worth paying the extra money to get the WD Red Pro instead of the WD Red ?
What would be the maximum size Hard drive for my setup ? (3TB, 4TB, 5TB, 6TB) and also the maximum total size permited ? Is it still limit to 16TB total ?
Thank you !
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with os 6 there are no known limits.
I have 8 tb drives in my readynas for a couple years now with no issues, all of my readynas are running os 6, 3 of them are legacy os 4 devices.
sylvainp wrote:
Is it worth paying the extra money to get the WD Red Pro instead of the WD Red ?
Both are good options. I've gone with the Red myself, and get good perfomance. The Pros do have a longer warranty, and the higher RPM ought to yield faster seek times - so they might be a bit snappier on browsing and small file transfers. However they will use more power and give you somewhat higher temps.
- So I can use 3TB to 8TB drives ?
I was thiking to buy 2x 4TB Red or Red Pro and use them with the 2x 3TB Red I already have and remove the 500GB drives. So I will probably going to use 4 bigger drives instead of 6 for now. Buy other later if I will need it.
I will have to check for the best $/TByes you should be able to use any size drives that conform to standard hardrive specifications.
do keep in mind, the bigger the drives, the bigger the array, the longer it will take for rebuilds/expansions/etc.
One should consider raid6/dual redundancy if they have 6 or more bay device. You do lose 2 disks of space, but the extra safety during a rebuild or expansion may save your data and your sanity.
But always remember, Raid is never a substitute for backsups. Backups = multiple copies of your data, on multiple devices, and ideally in multiple locations. Consider things like fire/flood/theft etc.
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