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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...
@dbott67 - thank you, appreciate the insight. My entire network uses Gigabit ports and Cat5e cabling. The PC I am currently on is a Core i7 950 with Solid State Drives, so that should not be an issue either. Either way, *all* the options in that list will outperform my existing ReadyNAS Duo.
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I've ordered the ReadyNas Ultra 6, shopped around a bit and managed to find it for £434, which I think is a pretty decent deal. I was all ready to get a 4-bay NAS due to the relative cost, but this allows for more future-proofing at the same price level.
Now for the tricky decision of hard drives...
I've found some nice Western Digital WD30EZRS 3TB for £108 each.
The alternative are Samsung HD204UI 2TB for £52 each.
Obviously the 2TB drives are far, far cheaper - but they also leave a lot of potential space untapped long-term.
I'm currently most tempted to just get 4x2TB, which makes for ~5454gb usable disc space - and add 2x 3TB once their price comes down / I need more space.
If I understand the Xraid2 correctly, 2x 3TB + 4x 2TB still makes for ~9999GB usable disc space, which is not insignificant.
(I'm using the commonly accepted 0.909 multiplier for larger hard drives to calculate their 'real' disc space, and assume 1 drive is used for redundancy, in this case the largest redundant drive available)
Total capacity if all drives were upgraded to 3TB would be ~13,635 - which I can't see myself fill any time soon.
Question is, would it be better to use all 6 bays right from the start or does this not matter a great deal?
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I've ordered the ReadyNas Ultra 6, shopped around a bit and managed to find it for £434, which I think is a pretty decent deal. I was all ready to get a 4-bay NAS due to the relative cost, but this allows for more future-proofing at the same price level.
Now for the tricky decision of hard drives...
I've found some nice Western Digital WD30EZRS 3TB for £108 each.
The alternative are Samsung HD204UI 2TB for £52 each.
Obviously the 2TB drives are far, far cheaper - but they also leave a lot of potential space untapped long-term.
I'm currently most tempted to just get 4x2TB, which makes for ~5454gb usable disc space - and add 2x 3TB once their price comes down / I need more space.
If I understand the Xraid2 correctly, 2x 3TB + 4x 2TB still makes for ~9999GB usable disc space, which is not insignificant.
(I'm using the commonly accepted 0.909 multiplier for larger hard drives to calculate their 'real' disc space, and assume 1 drive is used for redundancy, in this case the largest redundant drive available)
Total capacity if all drives were upgraded to 3TB would be ~13,635 - which I can't see myself fill any time soon.
Question is, would it be better to use all 6 bays right from the start or does this not matter a great deal?
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