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Silent NAS wanted
I need to put my NAS in my living room. So it must be as silent as possible. Thus I don't want a RAID configuration where all disks are spinning, but a JBOD configuration where unused disks spin down...
It is possible to set drive spin down. As I have always had mine in an X-Raid/X-Raid2 structure, I don't know if it will spin down unused drives in a flex-raid mode. While I do not have any way to measure volume, none of the three ReadyNAS units (one NV+ v1, two NVX) I have would I consider noisy, in fact when I am on the desktop, they are only about 4 feet from my ear, sitting on top of the table. I do on occasion hear the drives, but not all the time. In my opinion, a 6 bay would have a higher noise level than a 4 bay (three fans and more drives). Since the difference in the Ultra 4 and Ultra 4 Plus is a single core processor against a dual core in the Plus, and the Pro 4 has the same hardware as the Ultra 4 Plus, I would say that the noise level would be the same, and I would expect them to be as quiet as my NVX.
I will leave it to others if it is possible to configure four Raid0 volumes on a 4 bay unit. I simply do not know.
I will leave it to others if it is possible to configure four Raid0 volumes on a 4 bay unit. I simply do not know.
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