Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB

captain wrote:
2) Is flashing the firmware on the drives going to wipe out the data, requiring a complete backup and restore and another week of downtime? To WHAT can I back up 2+TB of data anyway??? It seems that owning a ReadyNAS requires one to own TWO ReadyNASes. ;-)

I have totally thought this way before.. and for that reason I bought a $328 (eaegis.com) Thecus N4100+ NAS and put 4x 86$ one-terabyte drives in it ad use it as a full-backup for the readynas... The Thecus even has two gigabit ports (used on different subnets, not together) and FREE modules that allow synching with other devices, like the readynas, and even a FREE DLNA server module [i'm still irritated that I had to PAY for twonky for my readynas]. Now it's not as fast as the readynas, (it does stream high bitrate Bluray-rip test ".ts" files) but it allows me to upgrade capacity on one device, then the other, "back and forth", and avoid this "eternity" of disk expansion and offline volumes...