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Thinking of Upgrading from ReadyNAS Duo - Best options?
I currently own a ReadyNAS Duo with 2x 1.5TB drives. (~1.3TB of usuable space) The only real change I made was upgrading the RAM to 1GB, as it was a cheap upgrade at the time and came highly recommen...
Thank you - so with an NV+ I could migrate the discs, that is good to know.
Using dabs.com as I have an account there/very good experiences;
The ReadyNAS Ultra 4 Plus Diskless and ReadyNAS Ultra 6 are practically the same price. More storage means a lot more to me than raw performance, especially if they are already an upgrade to the ReadyNAS Duo. The Duo performs really well, but struggles sometimes some HQ video streaming. (Although I watched 1080p movies from it without much trouble) I'm not sure if I would make use of the performance increase between Ultra Plus and Ultra?
The ReadyNAS Ultra 4 seems ok, though is still a good £400.. At that rate I am tempted to just bite the bullet and go with an Ultra 6 for £190 more. I really regret not getting a 4-bay solution immediately, rather than the Duo, as I wouldn't be in this situation now.
As far as options go, I'm a little confused about the differences from Ultra, Ultra Plus and Pro?
4-Bay;
Ultra: £407
Ultra+: £559
Pro: £470
6-Bay;
Ultra: £589
Ultra+: £716
Pro: £802
The cheapest NV+ (4 bay?) I could find was £331, comes with some fairly useless 1 TB drives that I would have to sell / give away.
With Samsung Spinpoint F4 HD204UI drives, the most financially sensible choices would be the Nv+ or Ultra's which would fully filled come to;
NV+: £551 ~5454gb
Ultra 4: £627 ~5454gb
Ultra 6: £919 ~9090gb
(Available disc space is estimate, bearing in mind 1 disc's capacity is lost in the x-raid config)
Any and all opinions welcome. (@PapaBear - you posted while I wrote this - thank you so much, that is very helpful. I will shop around a bit)
Using dabs.com as I have an account there/very good experiences;
The ReadyNAS Ultra 4 Plus Diskless and ReadyNAS Ultra 6 are practically the same price. More storage means a lot more to me than raw performance, especially if they are already an upgrade to the ReadyNAS Duo. The Duo performs really well, but struggles sometimes some HQ video streaming. (Although I watched 1080p movies from it without much trouble) I'm not sure if I would make use of the performance increase between Ultra Plus and Ultra?
The ReadyNAS Ultra 4 seems ok, though is still a good £400.. At that rate I am tempted to just bite the bullet and go with an Ultra 6 for £190 more. I really regret not getting a 4-bay solution immediately, rather than the Duo, as I wouldn't be in this situation now.
As far as options go, I'm a little confused about the differences from Ultra, Ultra Plus and Pro?
4-Bay;
Ultra: £407
Ultra+: £559
Pro: £470
6-Bay;
Ultra: £589
Ultra+: £716
Pro: £802
The cheapest NV+ (4 bay?) I could find was £331, comes with some fairly useless 1 TB drives that I would have to sell / give away.
With Samsung Spinpoint F4 HD204UI drives, the most financially sensible choices would be the Nv+ or Ultra's which would fully filled come to;
NV+: £551 ~5454gb
Ultra 4: £627 ~5454gb
Ultra 6: £919 ~9090gb
(Available disc space is estimate, bearing in mind 1 disc's capacity is lost in the x-raid config)
Any and all opinions welcome. (@PapaBear - you posted while I wrote this - thank you so much, that is very helpful. I will shop around a bit)
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