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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...
Thanks for both helpful replies. I now have two directions to think about.
Either I try out a third party ESATA port multiplier —on my own risk— or I chose a RN428 initially with a 3 disk raid5 volume and the assured upgrade path towards two 4 disk raid5 volumes. (Limiting the disk count per volume appears beneficial to me in case it ever should become necessary to move the volume to other hardware.) Taking into account the anyhow limited count of disk slots, I meanwhile tend to use 8 TB drives instead of 4 TB.
Additionally I was looking for end-of-life information for the ReadyNAS series. Several older postings point to https://www.netgear.com/landing/eol.aspx that no longer exists. More precisly: How long can I expect to get bug fixes for the RN31x and RN42x series, using the best information available today?
Finally some background information: I am a somehow advanced home user. What I really like with the ReadyNAS Firmware is the open access to its Debian familiar to me. The NAS units serve as archive for video files, mainly TV recordings in 720p. Unit A is from a different manufacturer, in use since 2011 with a 5x 2TB raid5 volume. Unit B is a RN316 in use since 2013 with a 6x 4 TB raid6 volume.
georgeMMXII wrote:
More precisly: How long can I expect to get bug fixes for the RN31x and RN42x series, using the best information available today?
Netgear can't comment, so all you will hear on this is speculative guesswork.
The RN42x family was just launched in May, so it seems very premature to be talking about EoL.
Although the RN42x is replacing the RN31x family, I don't see any hint that they will stop supporting it any time soon. They announced the end of firmware development on the NV+ v1 about five years after they stopped producing it. And in that case, all OS 4.1.x systems had been out of production for a long time. New OS-6 platforms are still coming out.
The main risk with the RN31x is that it has only 2 GB of RAM (compared with 4 GB in the RN42x). Eventually that might create out-of-memory issues. But if you stay with the existing services/features, I think you'll be ok.
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