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ReadyNAS showing 3TB drives as 746GB
Hi Community, My first post and forey into a ReadyNAS. Got the unit used and am currently running the RAIDiator-Sparc-4.1.16 firmware. I have 4 - 3TB Red drives. Prior to using, I did a cle...
Thank you for all of that.
The system was free, so no issue there.
Of all the models you suggested, which would make sense for video streaming and be future compatible with drives up to 5TB each? I anticipate buying one used, but figured I would ask. In the end, I may go with a single external HDD to run my movies from Kodi, but I would prefer the redundancy of the NAS as I had an xpenology NAS for the past 5 years.
Thanks again for taking the time to share your knowledge and opinion.
Much appreciated.
The system was free, so no issue there.
Of all the models you suggested, which would make sense for video streaming and be future compatible with drives up to 5TB each? I anticipate buying one used, but figured I would ask. In the end, I may go with a single external HDD to run my movies from Kodi, but I would prefer the redundancy of the NAS as I had an xpenology NAS for the past 5 years.
Thanks again for taking the time to share your knowledge and opinion.
Much appreciated.
kevinokev wrote:
Thank you for all of that.
The system was free, so no issue there.
Of all the models you suggested, which would make sense for video streaming and be future compatible with drives up to 5TB each? I anticipate buying one used, but figured I would ask. In the end, I may go with a single external HDD to run my movies from Kodi, but I would prefer the redundancy of the NAS as I had an xpenology NAS for the past 5 years.
Thanks again for taking the time to share your knowledge and opinion.
Much appreciated.
The models I suggested can all currently handle disks up to 16 TB (and there is no reason to think they can't handle larger SATA disks as they come onto the market).
They all have a built in DLNA server, and Plex can also be installed. Though I don't use Kodi myself, I believe it accesses the NAS SMB shares, so that should also work fine.
If you are interested in Plex and require real-time transcoding, then you'd be better off with the currently shipping OS-6 models, as they have faster processors than the older Pro and Ultras. The other option (better IMO) is to deploy a plex server on a PC that maps the media shares to drive letters. None of the ReadyNAS have GPUs, which limits their transcoding performance.
Some models (RN5xx and RN6xx) support 10Gbase-T ethernet (as well as normal gigabit).
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