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Ready for expansion (RN Pro Pioneer Edition)-Seeking Advice
Hi Everyone. I purchased and setup my Readynas Pro Pioneer around Jan 2010. Aside from one disk issue (increasing errors, which Seagate replaced under warranty) it has been a nice experience. I ...
With dual redundancy, you will need to upgrade all four of your disks to get more storage space. So small steps probably don't make much sense. For NAS drives (seagate NAS or WDC Red) 4x2TB would cost ~$400 US and gain you 2 TB of storage. 4x3TB would cost ~$550 but gain you 4 TB - twice as big an increase.
As far as drive choices, I suggest the WD30EFRX (3 TB drives). They aren't enterprise, but they are intended for NAS, and have 3 year warranties (much better than the 1 year that the desktop drives have). They are also the newest 3 TB drive on the HCL. I use them in my pro-6 and my RN102, and have had no issues with them at all.
If you go off the HCL, Netgear will likely deny support - and you do have about a year of warranty left.
There are two expansion limits
(a)you can't exceed 16 TiB total volume size. That wouldn't apply to you until someone makes > 8 TB drives.
(b) You can't grow a volume more than 8 TiB over its lifetime. If you started with this configuration, you could expand up to 4x5TB. So you have plenty of headroom.
As far as drive choices, I suggest the WD30EFRX (3 TB drives). They aren't enterprise, but they are intended for NAS, and have 3 year warranties (much better than the 1 year that the desktop drives have). They are also the newest 3 TB drive on the HCL. I use them in my pro-6 and my RN102, and have had no issues with them at all.
If you go off the HCL, Netgear will likely deny support - and you do have about a year of warranty left.
There are two expansion limits
(a)you can't exceed 16 TiB total volume size. That wouldn't apply to you until someone makes > 8 TB drives.
(b) You can't grow a volume more than 8 TiB over its lifetime. If you started with this configuration, you could expand up to 4x5TB. So you have plenty of headroom.
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