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RNDU4000 ReadyNAS Ultra 4 - Max hard disk size
I currently have 4No. 4TB drives in my Ultra 4 NAS configured in raid 10 or Netgear equivalent (Mirrored to give 8TB minus FAT and other system info)... I know that the list of recommended drives does not exceed 4TB sized drives. However I also note that the list of drives has not been updated since the Ultra 4 got discontinued when 4TB drives were current. Since then 5 and 6 TB drives have been released into the market. Has anyone tried to use any larger drives in this unit? What happened?
I have just purchased a ReadyNAS 314 unit which I plan to fit out with 4No. 6TB WD Red hard drives... Before I fit these into the 314, I'm thinking to remove the existing 4No. hard drives from my old Ultra 4 NAS and and try the 6TB drives in there place. Once this experiment is complete would there be any problems with reinstalling the existing 4TB disks back into the Ultra 4 without any issues?
Thanks.
I have just purchased a ReadyNAS 314 unit which I plan to fit out with 4No. 6TB WD Red hard drives... Before I fit these into the 314, I'm thinking to remove the existing 4No. hard drives from my old Ultra 4 NAS and and try the 6TB drives in there place. Once this experiment is complete would there be any problems with reinstalling the existing 4TB disks back into the Ultra 4 without any issues?
Thanks.
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- Thanks mdgm,
I feel more assured now you have said this.
When my 6TBs arrive next week and my 314 is up and running. I'm going to transfer all the stuff off the Ultra 4 and upgrade it to OS6 with a view to later changing the 4TB drives in the old unit to 6TB drives in the near future.
If I use the Ultra 4 with OS 6 in a Raid 10 configuration... to upgrade the disks to 6TB , do I switch out the 4TB drives one at a time for the 6TB drives while letting the Raid rebuild in between each swap. Once all the drives are matched 6TBs, with the unit recognise this and increase the Raid size to fill the drives?
Beyond the upgrades on the disk sizes are there any other benefits that I will have with the OS6 upgrade? Will the current DLNA and remote access add-ons work.
Thanks again. - I think so. Though I'm not sure whether RAID-10 can be expanded or not.
ReadyDLNA is included in the firmware. In OS6 we have ReadyCloud. ReadyCloud has additional features compared with ReadyNAS Remote.
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