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Netgear ReadyNAS RNDP6000 What is the maximum disk it will support?
I have 3TB x 6 disks in my RNDP6000 and I wondered if it will take 4TB disks, when I can afford to upgrade it. I cannot find any clear information on whether it can only whether it can support 4TB x 6
If anyone can confirm this would be most helpful please.
andrewmillner wrote:
I have 3TB x 6 disks in my RNDP6000 and I wondered if it will take 4TB disks, when I can afford to upgrade it. I cannot find any clear information on whether it can only whether it can support 4TB x 6
If anyone can confirm this would be most helpful please.
You cannot use XRAID to expand to a volume size over 16 TiB. (There is also an 8 TiB growth limit from the original volume size).
You can do a factory reset with all the new drives in place. 6x4TB single redundancy would get you 20 TB, dual redunancy would be 16 TB. You'd need to restore all your data from backup, and rebuild the NAS (reinstall any add-ons etc).
Note (though unsupported by Netgear), if you are doing a reset anyway you could also install OS6. That does not have the xraid expansion limits that OS4 has - so future expansion to 6TB or perhaps even larger would be possible.
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andrewmillner wrote:
I have 3TB x 6 disks in my RNDP6000 and I wondered if it will take 4TB disks, when I can afford to upgrade it. I cannot find any clear information on whether it can only whether it can support 4TB x 6
If anyone can confirm this would be most helpful please.
You cannot use XRAID to expand to a volume size over 16 TiB. (There is also an 8 TiB growth limit from the original volume size).
You can do a factory reset with all the new drives in place. 6x4TB single redundancy would get you 20 TB, dual redunancy would be 16 TB. You'd need to restore all your data from backup, and rebuild the NAS (reinstall any add-ons etc).
Note (though unsupported by Netgear), if you are doing a reset anyway you could also install OS6. That does not have the xraid expansion limits that OS4 has - so future expansion to 6TB or perhaps even larger would be possible.
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