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Is my Ultra 6+ a good candidate for OS 6?
I have an Ultra 6+ that I've upgraded to 4gb of RAM and installed a Core2Duo E7500 in it. I have 4x4tb & 2x3tb drives in it. It's served me very well over the years, but the OS is starting to sho...
OS 6 is of course not supported by Netgear on the Ultra, but you've already voided the warranty with your hardware mods.
Lots of people here have switched to it in their legacy x86 NAS with good results. Maybe try it with a scratch disk first, and give it a test drive. The process is reversible. Do make a backup first.
You should be able to use 8 TB drives in the ultra (easier with OS 6 because it has no expansion limit). I'd keep away from the Seagate archival drive - SMR is not the best technology for general use - but the others (WD Red, Red Pro, Seagate Nearline, VN etc) should work. There other some other posters here who have used these bigger drives in their Ultra and Pro NAS.
OS 6 is of course not supported by Netgear on the Ultra, but you've already voided the warranty with your hardware mods.
Lots of people here have switched to it in their legacy x86 NAS with good results. Maybe try it with a scratch disk first, and give it a test drive. The process is reversible. Do make a backup first.
You should be able to use 8 TB drives in the ultra (easier with OS 6 because it has no expansion limit). I'd keep away from the Seagate archival drive - SMR is not the best technology for general use - but the others (WD Red, Red Pro, Seagate Nearline, VN etc) should work. There other some other posters here who have used these bigger drives in their Ultra and Pro NAS.
No expansion limit in OS6? That's pretty good news! Thanks for the heads up on 8TB drives.
dijonnaise wrote:
No expansion limit in OS6?
Netgear generally qualifies it as "no known expansion limits". But if there are limits no one has hit them yet.
I recently upgraded my Ultra 2+ (2GB) to OS6.5 and it seems to be working very very well. I have one hiccup with SMB that we are still working to resolve, but otherwise I'd say that OS6 is a great improvement over OS4.
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