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giuseppeT
Oct 13, 2015Aspirant
ReadyNas 104 maximum expansion
Hi evryone,
today is a second day with my ReadyNas 104 and I'm very satisfied of this product !
I have one question on the maximum volume capacity to 16TB with the new firmware. The best solution with x-raid is 2x 5TB and 2x 6TB hard drive? so as have 15TB?
Now my ReadyNas has 2x 3TB WD RED and I want considering the best volume upgrade by future.
Thanks,
Giusepe
ifixidevices wrote:
You're running 6.0 and as far as I believe 6.0 doesn't have an expansion limit. I would know as I would have already hit it...
The RN100 series started out with a 16 TiB volume limit, but in 6.4.0 this was changed, so there is no longer a volume limit.
ifixidevices wrote:
Will be adding two more 8TB drives as soon as I find a few good deals on them.
Hopefully not Seagate Archival drives...
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- ifixidevicesLuminary
You're running 6.0 and as far as I believe 6.0 doesn't have an expansion limit. I would know as I would have already hit it... I started out with 1 8TB drive in a readynas pro 6 and then added 3 more (I have 21.82TB's of storage available to me.)
Will be adding two more 8TB drives as soon as I find a few good deals on them.
So for you on a 104 I'd say you'll be just fine.
- StephenBGuru - Experienced User
ifixidevices wrote:
You're running 6.0 and as far as I believe 6.0 doesn't have an expansion limit. I would know as I would have already hit it...
The RN100 series started out with a 16 TiB volume limit, but in 6.4.0 this was changed, so there is no longer a volume limit.
ifixidevices wrote:
Will be adding two more 8TB drives as soon as I find a few good deals on them.
Hopefully not Seagate Archival drives...
- giuseppeTAspirant
yes, I have updated the firmware to 6.4.0 so I don't have any limit with my x-raid system? this is a great notice!
So can I add 2x 8TB WD RED to my 2x 3TB base and than replace my hard drive base with another 2x 8TB without loss the data?
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