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X-RAID upgrading from 2 drives to 4
If I had an NV+ with two drives (400GB each) in X-RAID configuration and I wanted to replace them with say, 4x1TB units, are my calculations below correct for each step in the process?: At start, 2...
QuackingPlums wrote:
PapaBear wrote: There is only one Samsung 1TB on the Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) and it is the F1 HD103UJ.
Really?! I'm looking at the HCL right now and it says the 2TB F4 HD204UI is on it - am I looking at the wrong list?
http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=82
PapaBear was referring to 1TB drives not 2TB drives.
QuackingPlums wrote: Good point. I wasn't going to buy all four disks at the same time from the same place (to avoid having them from the same batch, if there's a potential for bad batches - does anybody still do this?) so I was thinking two, then another two 3-6 months down the line.
Yes people still do this kind of thing.
QuackingPlums wrote:
I have to update RAIDiator anyway, since I'm only on 4.1.4 and this doesn't support 4K sectors does it?
You must have updated to 4.1.7 or later and subsequently done a factory reset (wipes all data, settings, everything) to get 4k sector alignment. Now would be a good time do this as you don't have much data so backing up all your data shouldn't take as long as it would in the future. Backing up 400GB of data is much quicker than backing up say 4TB of data.
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