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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...
Mostly 2-bay and 6-bay units from a series of ReadyNAS units (e.g. Ultra) will be quietest. However with the NV+ v2 having an external PSU that will help reduce the cooling that is needed and help keep the noise down.
You can configure up to four Flex-RAID volumes and these can be RAID-0 volumes. On the Duo v2 and NV+ v2 you can select the JBOD option.
On other models you can select Flex-RAID and delete the existing volume that is created and create the ones you want. On x86, when you choose Flex-RAID, I think you can choose to create no volume which will help save some time.
The OS is stored on the disks so I would think that the drives would still tend to spin down and up together even using Flex-RAID.
You really can't put the NAS anywhere else? You can't find a place (e.g. the garage - of course you'd need a power point if there isn't one already) to put it and get a cabler in to run an ethernet cable or two to the living room (or wherever you want it run to)?
You can configure up to four Flex-RAID volumes and these can be RAID-0 volumes. On the Duo v2 and NV+ v2 you can select the JBOD option.
On other models you can select Flex-RAID and delete the existing volume that is created and create the ones you want. On x86, when you choose Flex-RAID, I think you can choose to create no volume which will help save some time.
The OS is stored on the disks so I would think that the drives would still tend to spin down and up together even using Flex-RAID.
You really can't put the NAS anywhere else? You can't find a place (e.g. the garage - of course you'd need a power point if there isn't one already) to put it and get a cabler in to run an ethernet cable or two to the living room (or wherever you want it run to)?
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