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Gimpson
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Aug 02, 2015
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Expand ReadNAS capacity by adding another NAS

Hi!   I have a ReadyNAS NV2+, and am rapidly running out of storage space. I looked at buying a new 8-bay NAS (from various manufacturers such as QNap), but these see to be many times more expensiv...
  • StephenB's avatar
    Aug 02, 2015

    You can't link ReadyNAS ito create a single volume, so you'd need to run the two NAS independently. If you add network locations to windows file explorer (or create desktop shortcuts for different shares) this would be pretty transparent for the users.

     

    Some NAS models do support an expansion module (an EDA500), but the NV+ v2 is not one of them.

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