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Upgrade HDD or get new device
Hello, I currently have a ReadyNAS NV+ with 4-500GB drives that is rapidly approaching size limits (about 100 GB free, raid 5 configuration). This device is used at home to store all our music, ...
-Four 1 TB drives gets you 3 TB of available storage, with one drive used for redundancy
-Three 2 TB drives gets you 4 TB of available storage, also with one drive used for redundancy. The cost is about the same, but you get more storage and a better upgrade path.
To install them in the existing ReadyNAS you would need to backup your data, upgrade the firmware to the current release. Then power down and replace old drives with the three new ones. It will then do a factory default procedure, and build a new RAID array. After that completes, copy your data back. (You can also backup up/restore your configuration if you like).
BTW, the file system on the NAS is EXT (linux) not FAT. Though I am not an Mac guy, so hopefully others will chime on the aperture stuff. I have seen a writeup by sphardy here (http://sphardy.com/web/readynas/apertur ... -readynas/)
-Three 2 TB drives gets you 4 TB of available storage, also with one drive used for redundancy. The cost is about the same, but you get more storage and a better upgrade path.
To install them in the existing ReadyNAS you would need to backup your data, upgrade the firmware to the current release. Then power down and replace old drives with the three new ones. It will then do a factory default procedure, and build a new RAID array. After that completes, copy your data back. (You can also backup up/restore your configuration if you like).
BTW, the file system on the NAS is EXT (linux) not FAT. Though I am not an Mac guy, so hopefully others will chime on the aperture stuff. I have seen a writeup by sphardy here (http://sphardy.com/web/readynas/apertur ... -readynas/)
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