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Migration question 316 and 516
I have a 516 up and running at the moment, and it's been running for over a year. It's set up as RAID6 with 3TB drives. I recently bought a 316 to back up the 516, and I also bought more drives. My t...
I guess the only other thing is that I bought Seagate 3TB NAS drives this time around. I currently have WD RED's in the 516. I was under the impression they would be slightly faster than the RED's. Of course, it wouldn't be much, but I don't think it'd be bad to take advantage of it.
seagete write speed is faster
red read speed is comparable with the seagate
You can see A-B test results here for the 4 TB models: http://www.storagereview.com/wd_red_4tb_hdd_review_wd40efrx. The WDC was faster,
3 TB could well be reversed (e.g. seagate could be faster) - but I'm not seeing a direct comparison. There is an A-B test of a 3 TB WDC vs a 4 TB Seagate, but in my opinion that is not apples to apples.
Thanks guys, that gives me a bit to go on... Just curious. If I took out the drives and put them in the other system (in order)... it should work, right?
Okay, it does work. (moving the array) I know I've seen that elsewhere around here.
As an aside, I ended up moving the array to the new 316, and I'm starting from scratch on the 516. After looking further, there was some installed apps that I can't get rid of from that period in time where the new firmware broke removing apps... I just want to clean house.
I'll set up the 516, transfer all the data over, then factory reset the 316 and use it as a backup.
Thank you Stephen, this isn't the first time you've helped me. I appreciate it! cpu8088, thank you as well!
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