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bdg
Aug 31, 2011Aspirant
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I have just purchased two ReadyNAS Ultra RNDU2000. Installation of disks seems fine according to raidar (running on Windows 7 Enterprise) and the last column shows 4.2.17 which I guess is the firmware...
zamboni
Sep 17, 2011Aspirant
fbmachines wrote: NAS 1 [File Server]: ReadyNAS NV+, Raidiator 4.1.8, 1024 MB, X-RAID, 4x Seagate ST31000333AS 1 TB
NAS 2 [Media Server]: ReadyNAS NV+, Raidiator 4.1.8, 1024 MB, X-RAID, 4x Samsung Spinpoint F4EG HD204UI 2 TB
NAS 3 [HDD Image Server]: ReadyNAS NV+, Raidiator 4.1.8, 1024 MB, X-RAID, 3x Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS-02A6B0 1 TB
NAS 4 [Backup for NAS 1,2 & 3]: ReadyNAS NV+, Raidiator 4.1.8, 1024 MB, X-RAID, 4x Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 2 TB
NAS 5 [Off-Site Backup for NAS 1,2 & 3]: ReadyNAS NV+, Raidiator 4.1.8, 1024 MB, X-RAID, 4x Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5 TB
NAS 6 [BitTorrent Client]: ReadyNAS Duo, Raidiator 4.1.8, 1024 MB, X-RAID, 2x Western Digital RE2 WD5001ABYS 500 GB
NAS 7 [CrashPlan Client]: ReadyNAS Pro-6, Raidiator 4.2.19, 4096 MB, X-RAID2, 6x Samsung Spinpoint F4EG HD204UI 2 TB
NAS 8 [On-site Backup]: ReadyNAS Pro-6, Raidiator 4.2.19, 8192 MB, X-RAID2, 6x Samsung Spinpoint F4EG HD204UI 2 TB
NAS 9 [Off-site Backup]: ReadyNAS Pro-2, Raidiator 4.2.19, 1024 MB, X-RAID2, 2x Western Digital RE3 WD5002ABYS-01B1B0 500 GB
Whoa. Nothing to do with this thread; I only have to say -- this seems like entirely too many NAS units for one person. Curious - is this personal, a business, or both? Given the capacities, it sure seems like the data could have been better handled by swapping drives.
You have 32.5 TB of data capacity and 12.5 TB of "redundant" space. Since some of these are "off-site" backups, it surely seems that you are not being as efficient (yet still off-site redundant) as you could easily be...
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