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RN104 Long in The Tooth What Would You Recommend Upgrading to?
Since Netgear is no longer in the business of selling the Home Nas devices, what to upgrade to? I have this legacy RN104 populated with 4x4tb WD Red drives that have performed well. But, now I want...
Stephen,
I just wanted to finish this thread by thanking you once again for your excellent help and to also give some stats on what has transpired with my backup to an external drive. I had never used the USB 3.0 port on the back of this RN104 unit until now. After receiving the Sabrent powered, USB3.0, flip top enclosure and inserting the 20tb WD Red Pro drive and connecting to this port, all went well. I was able to create a backup job for everything in the NAS. A total of 10tb. I started on Feb. 1, 2024 @4:26 PM and the log shows it completed on Feb. 4, 2024 @5:22 AM. Calculating the numbers gives me around 45Mbs transfer rate, which is what I expected. So, now it's off to the races and to upgrade the 4X4tb WD Red Pro drives in the NAS to 4X8tb WD Red Pro drives to increase my space. I will mark this as solved now.
I ordered and received a Sabrent external drive bay with USB-A (3.0) connector and power supply
I ordered and am currently waiting on a WD Red Pro 20tb drive for my initial first backup of the NAS.
If all goes successful with this initial backup I will then consider upgrading the RN104 from the 4x4gb drives to 8tb drives.
The NAS currently shows I have 2tb of free space available and is under the 30% limit the NAS says is needed for a safe file system storage.
l did look at the multi drive enclosures and this may be something I will go for in the future. But, at this time I am not wanting to have a large multi enclosure taking up space on the desk. I plan to keep the 20tb drives on a shelf or in a cabinet for safe keeping and only taking out for regular backups.
Since I receive Western Digital's email regularly, I took advantage of an offer where I got two of these 20tb drives in a bundle offer and saved greatly from what I was about to buy on Amazon.
I appreciate all your help and advice on this subject.
Stephen,
I just wanted to finish this thread by thanking you once again for your excellent help and to also give some stats on what has transpired with my backup to an external drive. I had never used the USB 3.0 port on the back of this RN104 unit until now. After receiving the Sabrent powered, USB3.0, flip top enclosure and inserting the 20tb WD Red Pro drive and connecting to this port, all went well. I was able to create a backup job for everything in the NAS. A total of 10tb. I started on Feb. 1, 2024 @4:26 PM and the log shows it completed on Feb. 4, 2024 @5:22 AM. Calculating the numbers gives me around 45Mbs transfer rate, which is what I expected. So, now it's off to the races and to upgrade the 4X4tb WD Red Pro drives in the NAS to 4X8tb WD Red Pro drives to increase my space. I will mark this as solved now.
I'm glad I was able to help, and that everything is going well.
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