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sstillwell
Apr 21, 2019Tutor
ReadyTIER with ReadyNAS Pro 6
Hi,
I've got a NAS Pro 6-bay system, currently on NASOS 6.9.5 hotfix 1 and loaded with 4 x WD RED 8 TB drives in FlexRAID RAID 5. Primary use case for the unit is as an NFS server for my VMwar...
- Apr 21, 2019
sstillwell wrote:
So...here's my putting-the-cart-before-the-horse question: Do you know of any reason this shouldn't work when adding a 512 GB RAID1 SSD tier to the existing volume?
It should work in the Pro-6 (though you do need to change to flexraid in order to use ReadyTier).
The main challenge is adapting the trays for the SSDs, and you've already found mounting brackets for that part.
ReadyTier isn't caching the metadata, so if the SSD RAID group fails you will lose the volume. Your SSDs will reach their write limits at the same time. So you might want to replace one of them about half-way through it's expected life, so you can stagger the replacements.
ovidiu
Apr 22, 2019Aspirant
I have the RN316 (similar to Readynas Pro, with ver 0.10 RC2.
Using the spearated volume of 2 Raid 1 2Two 256GB SSD's did not do much inhow I use and I want to remove the Tiered Cache (That is a sparate volume)
How do I CAORRECTLY Flush and disassemble the mini 2 disks cache volume to flush the data (I use it onlyu as data cache, not metadata, but I could loose infoe nevertheless).
I am better off with a Raid 6 on my DS315 I think. It;s mostly cold and warm storage now.
(I bought synologues 1019+ for hot data and transcoding)
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