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ReadyNAS Pro Biz Edition upgrade from 6X2TB to ?
I have a 2009 ReadyNAS Pro Biz Edition that has six 2TB drives and it is running RAIDiator 4.2.22. I haven't had it on for awhile and quit using it because it filled up. I have a couple 3TB drives ...
linkup1 wrote:
Still not getting the math. at 14TB I already subtracted a full 4TB drive for redundancy. Then what is the additional 1.3TB being taken away?
14 TB and 12.7 TiB are the same amount of actual space, just reported using different units. Drive manufacturers always use TB. The NAS uses TiB, but calls it TB (as does Windows).
1 TB = 1000*1000*1000*1000 bytes
1 TiB = 1024*1024*1024*1024 bytes
To convert 14 TB to TiB, the formula is
14*(1000/1024)*(1000/1024)*(1000/1024)*(1000/1024) = 12.7 TiB.
There are similar mismatches for GB /GiB and MB/MiB.
To use 3TB disks (or greater) you need to be running 4.2.16 or later. You're running 4.2.22 which is newer than 4.2.16 so that's fine.
Without knowing what disks you had installed when you last did a factory reset we can only guess as to whether you will run into an expansion issue or not.
You may well find you hit the 8TiB limit. If your volume capacity was 1.8TiB when you last did a factory reset you can't expand past 9.8TiB.
You also can't expand a volume past 16TiB.
OS6 has neither of these expansion limitations.
There isn't a way to query the box to find out what it thinks it had at reset?
Would it harm anything to swap out a 2TB for a 3TB? Wouldn't I know then if there was a gain in space?
Without bothering you more, is there an OS6 guide somewhere? When I searched for info about upgrades, etc. I didn't see OS6 mentioned.
I have since determined (I think) That I have a RNDP6350. Not sure if it is a -100 or -200? Found my original invoice and it doesn't have the model by number at all.
Thanks so much!
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