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georgeMMXII
Nov 07, 2017Aspirant
EDA500 Alternative
I am looking for a expansion chassis for my RN316. My original plan was to buy an EDA500, put 5 4TB disks in it in raid5 configuration, migrate 6 TB data from another NAS close to EOL, have one NAS l...
mdgm-ntgr
Nov 07, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Another ReadyNAS unit (e.g. RN426) would give much better performance than the EDA500.
The EDA500 uses a port multiplier.
Trying to get some other eSATA chassis to act like an EDA500 would not be supported by us. Even if you can get that to work we wouldn’t be able to help out with issues encountered with that.
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