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Copy time machine backups
New to the forum. I have an older (june 2011) NV+ ReadyNas with 4 x 1TB drives system which I use between linux/Mac & windows systems (NFS/AFP & CIFS), plus I use it for 2 Mac systems for time mach...
The NV+ you have will run 2 TB drives, the ceiling is not 1.5 TB. There are 11 2-TB drives on the NV+ (v1 not v2) HCL, The current HCL is here: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20641
Unfortunately your two best disk choices (in my view anyway) are not on the HCL for the NV+. They are the WD20EFRX and the ST2000VN000. Since your NAS has at least another 9 months of warranty that puts you into a somewhat difficult spot.
You have one additional option you might consider - getting an additional NAS instead of retiring the NV+. Then split your data between the two units. For sizing purposes, you really don't want your NAS to be more than about 75% full. Somewhere between 80 and 90% you start seeing significant performance issues as the file system heroically but unsuccessfully tries to avoid fragmentation.
I'm not a Mac user, so hopefully someone else can tell you how to carry over the time machine backups. Though if you add a NAS you can potentially avoid that (using your NV+ only for time machine, and the second NAS for everything else).
Unfortunately your two best disk choices (in my view anyway) are not on the HCL for the NV+. They are the WD20EFRX and the ST2000VN000. Since your NAS has at least another 9 months of warranty that puts you into a somewhat difficult spot.
You have one additional option you might consider - getting an additional NAS instead of retiring the NV+. Then split your data between the two units. For sizing purposes, you really don't want your NAS to be more than about 75% full. Somewhere between 80 and 90% you start seeing significant performance issues as the file system heroically but unsuccessfully tries to avoid fragmentation.
I'm not a Mac user, so hopefully someone else can tell you how to carry over the time machine backups. Though if you add a NAS you can potentially avoid that (using your NV+ only for time machine, and the second NAS for everything else).
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