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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ifixidevices
Luminary
Oct 13, 2015
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.
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Oct 13, 2015
  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...
giuseppeT
Aspirant
Oct 13, 2015
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?
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Oct 13, 2015
  giuseppeT wrote:
  
  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?
  
  AFAIK there is no 8 TB WD RED.
  
  But when and if there is, then yes.
  - giuseppeT
    Aspirant
    Oct 13, 2015
    lol, sorry I mean 6TB WD RED

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