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RN104 WD Red 6TB Drive
Hi Everyone. I've been slowly replacing my hard drives with the Western Digital 6 TB drives in my Ready NAS 104 storage system with the last one being added over the weekend. This morning when t...
Ok, the resync finished. What a huge difference and more inline with what I was expecting. I now have 8 TB free out of a 16.3 TB. Not too bad. May have not been the best choice of $ per TB but all in all I can't complain. I bought the drives over time. Thanks again for taking a look at the problem. It appears to be resolved.
With regards to upgrading, I'll be adding it to my budget and plan. I still have a bit of homework to do but it would be great if I could just buy a new chassis like you noted, RN214, shutdown my existing unit, remove drives, insert into the new RN214, and pick up where I left off. That would be pretty slick. The only thing I didn't like about the 214 is that I was concerned about the ARM processor.
It looks like the Rn214 is the top end right now for typical home use whereas the rest are for business. Either way, I'm still sold on the unit and I can't thank you enough. Super nice.
THANKS!
-scott
You will see that performance in the 104 with volumes > 16TB is a bit less than with smaller capacity volumes, so at some point in the future you might wish to consider upgrading to e.g. a RN204 or a RN214.
Ok, the resync finished. What a huge difference and more inline with what I was expecting. I now have 8 TB free out of a 16.3 TB. Not too bad. May have not been the best choice of $ per TB but all in all I can't complain. I bought the drives over time. Thanks again for taking a look at the problem. It appears to be resolved.
With regards to upgrading, I'll be adding it to my budget and plan. I still have a bit of homework to do but it would be great if I could just buy a new chassis like you noted, RN214, shutdown my existing unit, remove drives, insert into the new RN214, and pick up where I left off. That would be pretty slick. The only thing I didn't like about the 214 is that I was concerned about the ARM processor.
It looks like the Rn214 is the top end right now for typical home use whereas the rest are for business. Either way, I'm still sold on the unit and I can't thank you enough. Super nice.
THANKS!
-scott
The RN104 and the RN214 both have ARM processors.
If you got a 214 you could put a scratch disk (must not be from your array) in the RN214, update the firmware to at least as new as what you were running on the 104, power down, remove the scratch disk and then move your disks across (keeping the order the same) and power on.
If going to a unit using an Intel processor you should uninstall all the apps before attempting to move the disks across.
Another option if you did get a new unit eventually would be to get new disks for the new unit, use backup jobs to copy the data across then reverse the backup jobs to backup the new NAS to the 104.
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