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ReadyNAS314 Individual Storage
We use a ReadyNAS 314 storage system here at the office, we use it mainly for backing up images of important pcs. Heres the issue. we want to put the old images on 500gb and 1tb hard drives, but we d...
Generally Netgear doesn't recommend pulling drives in/out routinely from the NAS (no matter what the RAID setting). The SATA connectors on the drives themselves are not designed for repeated removal/insertions. There is some risk of mechanical damage to the connectors, and the usual risk of electrostatic discharge. Personally I think off-loading older images to USB drives is a much better approach. (Or get a big enough NAS to hold them all of course).
It's pretty easy to set up the NAS so that each drive is its own volume. You simply switch to flexraid, destroy the current volume, and then you can recreate new ones.
I think you will run into issues when you start removing/reinserting volumes - I don't think the NAS will easily let you remount the volume (once removed), and the stale volumes you have removed will likely get in the way when you insert new drives. So be sure you test-drive this idea if you decide to stay with it.
Generally Netgear doesn't recommend pulling drives in/out routinely from the NAS (no matter what the RAID setting). The SATA connectors on the drives themselves are not designed for repeated removal/insertions. There is some risk of mechanical damage to the connectors, and the usual risk of electrostatic discharge. Personally I think off-loading older images to USB drives is a much better approach. (Or get a big enough NAS to hold them all of course).
It's pretty easy to set up the NAS so that each drive is its own volume. You simply switch to flexraid, destroy the current volume, and then you can recreate new ones.
I think you will run into issues when you start removing/reinserting volumes - I don't think the NAS will easily let you remount the volume (once removed), and the stale volumes you have removed will likely get in the way when you insert new drives. So be sure you test-drive this idea if you decide to stay with it.
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