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Serveral disk volumes or just a big one
Hi, I bought a ReadyNAS 3200 two months ago. It's a big monster but easy to use. I'm just using the last 8 slots for a big RAID 5 4 x 2GB Hitachi hard drives. I am using just one big volume and left ...
SATA connectors are designed for a limited number of pulls and handling disks bare you risk damaging them. Swapping disks in and out of the units regularly may sound like a good idea to save time, but it's a bad idea. Frontview backup is very powerful and is very useful for backing up data to/from different ReadyNAS units.
RAID-5 is faster than RAID-6, but depending on how many gigabit connections you are using you may well find the gigabit ethernet is the bottleneck not how many volumes or what type you are using.
RAID-5 is faster than RAID-6, but depending on how many gigabit connections you are using you may well find the gigabit ethernet is the bottleneck not how many volumes or what type you are using.
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