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Daisy Chain RN102
I am currently at 70% of my 2TB NAS102 (2-bay) and I was under the impression that I can daisy chain another NAS102 to my current system. Like to know before I invest in another unit with drives.
StephensHomes wrote:
I am currently at 70% of my 2TB NAS102 (2-bay) and I was under the impression that I can daisy chain another NAS102 to my current system. Like to know before I invest in another unit with drives.
No, you can't. There's an expansion chassis for the x86 platforms, but that isn't available for you.
You can have 2 RN102 on the same network, but they'd be independent. You can also get an RN104 (or any other OS6 NAS) and migrate your existing disks.
StephensHomes wrote:
I am currently at 70% of my 2TB NAS102 (2-bay) and I was under the impression that I can daisy chain another NAS102 to my current system. Like to know before I invest in another unit with drives.
No, you can't. There's an expansion chassis for the x86 platforms, but that isn't available for you.
You can have 2 RN102 on the same network, but they'd be independent. You can also get an RN104 (or any other OS6 NAS) and migrate your existing disks.
OK, then a followup question: If I get two larger HDs, then replace them one at a time allowing the new drive to sync with the older. Is this a possibility?
The volume will expand as a result of doing that (assuming you are using the default X-RAID).
mdgm wrote:
The volume will expand as a result of doing that (assuming you are using the default X-RAID).
Yes (after the second disk is upgraded of course).
But the RN104 + one new drive might be cheaper for you. And it would have one open slot for expansion later. Perhaps price them both out and see which is better for you.
For instance, if you have 2x3TB WD30EFRX in your RN102 you can get to 6 TB two ways.
-RN104 with 3x3TB. That would cost ~$330 total (today's amazon pricing)
RN104 chassis: $219.99
1 more WD30EFRX: $109.99
-RN102 with 2x6TB. That would cost ~$500
2 WD60EFRX: $249 each
Hi
I have a slightly different but sort of related question.
I've got a RN102 with 4.5TB in total (1x 3TB and 1x1.5TB) in JBOD format which is a backup to my home theatre set up. However, my HTPC has died, leaving me with some spare disks.
I've just bought a RN104 which I'd like to migrate the RN102 disks into, along with the disks from my HTPC (2x 3TB drives).
Is there anyway of doing this migration non-destructively and moving to X-RAID in the process? I don't mind losing the data in either the RN102 disks or the HTPC disks as they are basically duplicates anyway, but I don't want to lose everything.My ideal situation would be to have the RN104 with 10.5TB in total, with X-RAID bringing it down to 5.25TB usable storage with redundancy.
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