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Upgrading an old ReadyNAS 3200
Greetings all, I have a situation. I have a 4 year old 24TB Readynas 3200 that is still super functional. Unfortunately, when I purcased, I only bought one extra WD 2TB Drive (WD2003FYYS) I...
So long as you're running 4.2.12 (or later) you could replace the disks (one at a time) and get 4k sector partition alignment.
mdgm wrote:So long as you're running 4.2.12 (or later) you could replace the disks (one at a time) and get 4k sector partition alignment.
Thank you! I am running the latest 4.2.30 - so I should be good to add a modern 2TB drive, then, correct? Any suggestions?
I was looking at WD site, specifically their gold datacenter drive series (as Red's look to be 5400 RPM)
WD2005FBYZ 2TB SATA 6Gb s 7200 128MB https://www.wdc.com/products/business-internal-storage/wd-gold.html#WD2005FBYZ
It will give you 4k sector partition alignment for the disk that is added. If a disk was added before 4.2.12 then it would not be 4k sector partition aligned unless after updating to 4.2.12 you removed it, then added it back again and waited for the resync to complete before moving onto the next disk.
mdgm wrote:It will give you 4k sector partition alignment for the disk that is added. If a disk was added before 4.2.12 then it would not be 4k sector partition aligned unless after updating to 4.2.12 you removed it, then added it back again and waited for the resync to complete before moving onto the next disk.
Ok, I understand. All 12 of the 2TB WD are original dating back to 2013 so I am sure that the existing drives would not be 4k partition aligned.
I really had no plans of upgrading the existing 12 drives - only to buy 1-2 more drives for swapping in case of any of the existing original drives failing (as I only have one, I am in a bad position right now). So for the immediacy, I need to have a couple of 2TB drives available for replacing any failed drive(s).
So my quesion would be this, based on what you have said -- would I be safe to purchase the most recent 2TB WD Gold model to use as a replacement should a drive fail? (Oh and just so you know, I actually have two volumes with 6 drives each - so two 12TB volumes each with Raid 5. My plans would be, since I am re-provisionning some of my equipment locally, to keep Volume C, delete volume D and expand Volume C to the full 24TB, though I realize Raid 5 isn't probably the best solution for a 12 drive NAS)
Thank you so much!
WDC Reds are 5400 rpm, but you weren't looking at those. The Red Pros and RE drives are 7200 rpm.
Golds should be a fine choice. You could go to 3 TB, since that ensures that the new drives have at least the same number of sectors as the old.
rob-catron wrote:
My plans would be, since I am re-provisioning some of my equipment locally, to keep Volume C, delete volume D and expand Volume C to the full 24TB,That expansion will fail. With OS 4.2
- a volume can't expand to more than 16 TiB
- a volume can't expand more than 8 TiB larger than it's initial size.
You hit both those limits.
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