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RN516 Expansion to 24TB?
I'm rapidly running out of storage space on my RN516, running OS 6.10.4. I have about 1.64TB free of a total of 18.17TB of available space. I'm running RAID 5 on 6 4TB hard drives. I use this NAS...
Thanks for the valuable tips on Snapshots. I will make sure all 4 NAS's are setup this way. I've schedule in Scrubbing, Defragmentation, and Balancing to run every 4 months, after an initial run in January!
Since you are running OS6 you can expand past 16TB and by more than 8TB. Those limitations of RAIDiator-x86 4.2.x do not apply.
If you are using X-RAID replacing two disks (one at a time, wait for resync to complete etc.) with higher capacity disks would be sufficient to get some vertical expansion.
Having said that there are advantages from creating a fresh volume with all the higher capacity disks in place.
If you are using X-RAID replacing two disks (one at a time, wait for resync to complete etc.) with higher capacity disks would be sufficient to get some vertical expansion.
Having said that there are advantages from creating a fresh volume with all the higher capacity disks in place.
Yes, I'm using X-RAID with the 6 4TB drives in Raid-5.
Is there a calculator or formula that I can use to determine the most economical path to expanding the volume?
If I'm replacing 2 drives in the NAS (one at a time, as you suggest), what is the impact of using a 6 TB vs 12TB
or even 16TB drives? Trying to do some cost/benefit analysis on getting the most space.
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