Upgrading to Ultra 6+ from NV+

yoh-dah wrote:

tenney wrote: 1) Is there any way to take my existing drives (and data!) and just plug them into either a Ultra 6 Plus or Pro 6 and poof everything is just moved over? Or will I need to have all new drives (at today's post-typhoon/flooding prices) in the new unit -- and then figure out how to copy everything over? NV+ runs X-RAID which is a different format that X-RAID2 which is run on the Ultra/Pro platform. You will need to move the data across, perhaps using the NFS backup option between the two.

So I've got to buy all new drives... Too bad.

I've been trying to find out if the Ultra 6 plus and/or Pro support 3TB drives (or they do, but the drive technology isn't solid enough). So far I can only find the 3TB drives mentioned in the drive compatibility list and nothing in the specs for the ReadyNAS itself. Are 3TB drives (a) supported and (b) a good idea?

I sure hope that the royal utter PITA I had to go through going from one NV+ to another NV+ won't exist in going from the NV+ to an Ultra 6 plus (or pro). The only way it would work was to ssh in as root and copy some of the shares / timemachine images by hand! Should I expect that the movement of all the user shares, time machine images, shares, etc. from the NV+ to the new Ultra Plus or Pro will go easily (taking a long time, but easily)? Or is it going to be a huge huge hassle as it was to go from one NV+ to another?

yoh-dah wrote:

2) I'm seeing Ultra 6 vs Ultra 6 Plus price differential at US$150. Is it worth it for a bit faster cpu? It's unclear that the Pro differential is worth it for a SOHO of a dozen clients accessing the NAS, and almost never more than 2 at once. Any comments on how to contemplate Ultra Plus vs Pro? The Ultra 6 Plus will have more transcoding power than Ultra 6. As mentioned above, Ultra 6 Plus can do 720p transcoding. Ultra 6 can do SD. This would be important if you're wanting to run Plex (see http://www.readynas.com/plex) a popular way of sharing video within and away from your home with mobile devices.

You've convinced me that between ultra 6 and ultra 6 plus the plus is a no brainer! Thanks!!

How about the choice between an ultra 6 plus vs a pro 6? Any information to help decide whether the pro vs the ultra plus makes enough sense would be most appreciated. It seems to be a small difference in price, but the NIC stuff doesn't seem to matter -- the only thing that I think would matter would be CPU speed and RAM (for things like transcoding on the fly).

And wow, I didn't know that you got Plex server running as a plugin. I might be able to get rid of one server if I can have the Ultra Plus (or pro?) share files from an NV+ (I've got multiple NASes with files for the Plex server). That's great. I've got several questions about that and will seek out another topic...