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Ready NAS 600 Hard Drive Question
I am still going strong with my original ReadNAS 600 (6-year anniversary tomorrow). I used to have a 4x250GB RAID 5 configuration. However, now it has a 2x1.5TB X-RAID configuration. One of my drives died. If I replace the dive, does it have to be the same kind, or even the same size? Will buying a larger hard drive slow it down, or make that space beyond 1.5TB unavailable? I love my RN600, and it works very well for the environment I am in, and I cannot complain at all about the speed (currently using gigabit switch and jumbo frames) it does pretty well. What is the max size drive I can use in my RN600?
Thanks!
Thanks!
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- 2TB drives are the max. If your partitions aren't 4k sector aligned adding a 4k sector disk will lead to poor write performance.
- mdgm,
Thanks for the reply! - You're welcome. Instructions on checking whether partitions are 4k sector aligned are found here: Why you might want to factory reset a Sparc ReadyNAS
mdgm wrote: You're welcome. Instructions on checking whether partitions are 4k sector aligned are found here: Why you might want to factory reset a Sparc ReadyNAS
Interesting...I may just do that, and upgrade to 2TB disks at this point. I have a backup of everything on my RN anyway. Thanks again!
Edit: I read all the way down the page. Wow, very good to know, and thank you!
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