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RN104 RAID 5
Currently Netgear only recommends some limited sized SSD's for use in their ReadyNAS. The largest being 256 gig. Has anybody tried to use a larger SSD. I would like to change out the 2TB drives for 2TB, or larger, SSD's?
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Hi jshakam,
I haven't tried 2TB SSDs on a ReadyNAS, but those big SSDs aren't cheap. To be honest, if you have the money for these big SSDs, you should buy something more powerful than an RN104. I'm quite sure that the potential performance increase would be dramatically bottlenecked by the CPU of the RN104. The RN104 is a nice unit for its price, but you can't expect huge performance.
That said, I do not know if any ReadyNAS supports 2TB SSDs (they're drives after all so why not, but if they don't, it's a lot of money wasted)
You probably want to use Teaming to increase network throughput as well (same thing, don't expect any real performance increase on RN104)
Hi jshakam,
Welcome to the community!
There are threads in the community about SSD on ReadyNAS OS 6. To be honest the drive that you're planning to use may or may not work, especially on a RN104 unit. Why won't you consider a bigger ReadyNAS with a much powerful RAM and CPU and use enterprise drives.
Kind regards,
BrianL
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