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Increase Disk Capacity for ReadyNas 3200 RN12P0000-100WWS
Good day!
We have 12-bay device (ReadyNas 3200 RN12P0000-100WWS) with 2TB each HDD (WDC WD2002FYPS)
Firmware: RAIDiator 4.2.28
Could you please help me to understand is it possible to change the all HDD to 3TB / 4TB ? And if it possible could you please share the part number & model of HDD (Western Digital are preffered)
The 3200 only supports disks that are higher capacity than 2TB in bays 1-4. In Bays 5-12 you are limited to 2TB disks.
There are a few expansion limitations for RAIDiator-x86 4.2.x
1. Cannot expand by more than 8TB over the life of the volume, so if volume capacity is 1.8TB when you last did a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything) you cannot expand past 9.8TB
2. Cannot expand past 16TB. Have to do a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything) with the disks in place. However with e.g. 8x2TB and 4x4TB using X-RAID2 it would create a layer using 12x2TB then try to expand to use the remaining 2TB on the 4TB disks and fail. You could use Flex-RAID and create multiple volumes.
Note our RN3220 and RN4220 have neither of these expansion limitations however they use a different OS and filesystem
You could get a 3220 or 4220 and new disks and backup the data from the old NAS to the new NAS then reverse the backup jobs to use the 3200 to hold backups of your important data.
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The 3200 only supports disks that are higher capacity than 2TB in bays 1-4. In Bays 5-12 you are limited to 2TB disks.
There are a few expansion limitations for RAIDiator-x86 4.2.x
1. Cannot expand by more than 8TB over the life of the volume, so if volume capacity is 1.8TB when you last did a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything) you cannot expand past 9.8TB
2. Cannot expand past 16TB. Have to do a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything) with the disks in place. However with e.g. 8x2TB and 4x4TB using X-RAID2 it would create a layer using 12x2TB then try to expand to use the remaining 2TB on the 4TB disks and fail. You could use Flex-RAID and create multiple volumes.
Note our RN3220 and RN4220 have neither of these expansion limitations however they use a different OS and filesystem
You could get a 3220 or 4220 and new disks and backup the data from the old NAS to the new NAS then reverse the backup jobs to use the 3200 to hold backups of your important data.Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. We will find the ways to purchase the new netgear devices!
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