ReadyNAS Ultra 6 Plus.... 18TB -> 24TB

StephenB wrote:

I suggest you consider the ST4000NV000 instead of the DM. You'll get a drive intended for NAS, and a 3-year warranty instead of 1-year. I generally go with WDC, not seagate myself, so I don't have personal experience with the Seagate NAS drives. There are expansion limits in x-raid2 - you'll need to answer mdgm's questions to find out when you will hit them. If you are running single-redundancy x-raid2, then the answer is "no". So start with there.

Thanks, I will look into that ST4000NV000 disks. I had horrible reliability problems with WD drives in the past so I only buy Seagates.
Oh my, I'm getting old..... been around since 8088 days, I had experience with all brands.
Based on my experience best drives I ever used were Quantum.... now long gone of course, then Seagate, why? in case of a problem with drive you have most chance to recover your data with these that's why basically. But of course, these are my experiences.

I'm running a dual-redundancy but I simply have no place to store/backup current NAS contents.
So really have to go with that swap in/out method only :(
Wonder if it will work?...