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Should I upgrade RND2150 to newer model?
I have a readyNas Duo 2150 with 500GB of storage that I bought 6 years ago. Netgear has announced end of life for this model. I need to upgrade the disk capacity to at least 1 TB if not 2TB. How...
Thanks for the quick response. A couple points of clarification.
Currently, I have 2 Macs + 2 external hard disks that are backed up via Time Machine to Time Capsule (can't backup to NAS since it's almost at maximum capacity). So, I do have to upgrade capacity to 2 TB which should probably last a few years.
If I upgrade capacity, I could probably get rid of the Time Capsule .
I use the NAS as a local backup in addition to the external hard drives (which function as backup and extra storage) , consisting of photos, some video, docs etc. I sometimes use it for streaming of Sonos. I don't tend to need a lot of extra features--but anything that automates back-up is a plus.
is my best (and cheapest) option still to simply upgrade hard disk capacity?
Well in the short-sight yes, your best option would be to just upgrade drives. It sounds tedious though to have external hard drives and the nas and all that so my suggestion would maybe be for now to pick up an rn102 or 104 depending on future capacity needs.
The RN102 can take up to 8TB drives but if you want any redundancy then you're only going to get 8TB's of space total. If you got an RN104 you could essentially put in up to 4 8TB hard drives giving you a capacity of 21TB's of data (and you wouldn't need all 8TB drives at once. Or you could buy smaller drives, sometimes the 3, 4, 5 or 6TB drives can be found for cheap.
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