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deejay_1956
Aug 25, 2011Aspirant
Which drives to buy?
Hi, I've just bought a readynas 4000 ultra ( NO PLUS) and I have difficulties to select which drives I should buy. I don't want to spend more then 100 -120$ per disk. When checking the HCL, I noti...
mdgm-ntgr
Aug 25, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
SATA is backwards compatible. SATA III (6Gb/s) disks work fine even with the oldest of ReadyNAS which have SATA I (1.5Gb/s). I believe the Ultra has SATA II. If a disk is on the compatibility list (http://www.readynas.com/hcl), then it's compatible, having passed NetGear's extensive testing to determine suitability for use in the ReadyNAS. Of course not all disks are equal and some disks are better than others.
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