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RN214 vs RN314 Questions
Greetings. I have an old (in computer years) ReadyNas Duo and am looking to upgrade to something with greater storage capacity. At present, I am considering the RN214 and RN314. To that end, I ha...
kmmcd wrote:
e) is it better to just plug the two new WD Red 6TB drives into the RN424, format them, create shares, etc., and then copy the old data from the Duo across the network to the new RN424 drives?
Yes. That also allows you to use the Duo for backup.
Note that once the data is migrated, you can do a factory reset on the duo - changing it to flexraid, and creating two RAID-0 volumes (one for each disk). That gives you 4 TB of backup (though it isn't protected from drive failure). I've done this with my own duo.
Using two volumes in the Duo does require you to manual balance storage (choosing which shares to place on which volume). But a single RAID-0 volume will completely fail if either disk fails. I've found balancing the storage isn't that difficult, and it's a lot more robust.
kmmcd wrote:
6) To utilize link aggregation, does my switch (GS116) need to support it as well, and does my router need to support it, and does my PC need to support
Note that your GS116 doesn't support LACP, you'd need a managed switch for that.
Perhaps more importantly, link aggregation is only useful if you have a lot of users. Each user is still limited by their single 1 gbps link anyway. With LACP, if you have two users there's a 50-50 chance they will be sharing the same link to the NAS, so there's only a 50-50 chance of seeing any performance gain at all. For most home users, it's not worth the trouble.
You'll see a huge performance boost with either an RN214 or an RN424 over your Duo v1, even w/o link aggregation.
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