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Netgear RN314 Hard Drive Upgrade
I have 4x4GB harddrives in my ReadyNAS configured to RAID5 and looking to upgrade them to the IronWolf Pro ST10000NE0004, 4x10GB
Is installing these straight forward? do I replace one drive at a time until it finishes rebuilding then add another one and so on?
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claynz wrote:
Is installing these straight forward?
Yes, although you will need to remove the plastic inserts from the trays, and use the mounting screws that shipped with your NAS. The Ironwolf drives don't have the center side mounting points that the plastic inserts use. The bottom holes won't all align, but the ones that do will be enough to secure the disks to the trays.
The WD80EZRX is the largest drive I know of that can use the plastic inserts.
claynz wrote:
do I replace one drive at a time until it finishes rebuilding then add another one and so on?
That will work, and you will see some expansion after you install the second drive.
The other way is to install all four disks at once, (resulting in a factory reset) and then restore the data from the backup.
The one-by-one method keeps the data available through the entire process, but the all-at-once method is quite a bit faster. Backing up the data is recommended with either method - a disk failure during a resync can destroy your data.
claynz wrote:
Installing all 4 disks at once is not an option, I have nothing to backup around 12GB of data to.
Then some day you will lose your data. It's more a question of when than if.
claynz wrote:My Supplier has the WD80EFZX@ drive @ 8GB but only 5400RPM is the 7200RPM drives better?
There is a performance gain with 7200 rpm on operations that require seeking (for instance directory browsing). Large file transfer speeds aren't limited by the disks, it is limited by gigabit ethernet.
On the other hand, the WDC reds use less power and therefore will run cooler.
The Ironwolf drives are fine, just make sure you still have the mounting screws that came with the NAS. The procedure to remove the plastic mounting bracket is in the hardware manual: page 170 here: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-100/ReadyNAS_%20OS6_Desktop_HM_EN.pdf
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