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upgrading capacity
Hi - I have a RN314 with 4 x 3TB hdd. I am looking to upgrade my capacity and was considering a) getting 4 x 6 TB for the 314 or b) a 312 with 2 x 10TB - and keeping the 314. Any thoughts... would 2 x 10TB be faster? The cost seems similar.
Thanks
J
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LAre you factoring in to your costing the fact that you would have four 3 tb disks free with the first approach. These could be sold or repurposed.
With today's cost of 10 tb disks, using them in RAID 1 doesn't seem cost effective. A RAID 1 array would be faster than a RAID 5 (xraid) array.
Another approach would be to upgrade to a six bay Readynas, use the existing disks and add new ones as you need capacity. As you gradually upgrade the disk sizes the 4 bay unit could be populated with the smaller disks and used as a backup.
It really depends on what you are looking for!!
In a cost effective sense of way 4x6Tb is better than an other unit plus the 10TB X 2 purchase .
As far as I am concerned!
And recycle your old drives in an obsolete NAS or entry level NAS to double back up your critical datas!
Thanks for the comments - I think I will replace 2 of the 3TB with 2 x 8TB now and then 2 x 8TB later.
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