setup advice - time to upgrade?

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ray_young wrote:

 

Lately it's been very slow accessing and working from files, espicially if more than one person. We're also moving office soon and I wondered if we should change/upgrade. 

  

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Has the number of users (or the overall load) increased?  Or is the cause of the slowdown unknown?  

I'm asking because there could be something failing.

However, to answer your question: A new NAS would be quite a bit faster than the NV+.  It sounds to me like an RN314 or possibly an RN516 would be the right choices for you.  Both are intended for business use.

Unfortunately you can't simply move the disks over.  I'd start with new disks anyway, since they are old.  Disks have gotten bigger, so you could get 2x3TB, giving you more space than you have now, and empty slots for expansion later.  When the new NAS is set up, you can copy the data over from the NV+ over your gigabit network.  

Do you have a backup plan in place?  If not, then you could re-purpose your NV+ as a backup to the new NAS.