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Swap raid 5 to raid 6 readynas 516 6 x 4TB
I am currently 6 x 4TB drives as one volume in Xraid raid 5 i only use this for storing movies for home cinema After reading a lot of the posts would it be benifitial to change to Raid 6 i still ha...
Thank you for your reply as with so many of us i dont have a back up of my nas because i always thought i was protected .
From the beggining i started of with 2 disks at that time mirroring so thought had a back but of course expanding the raid as i went on for novices you dont realise that the raid changes so by the time you have a fully 6 bay nas occupied a back up is another one which for home use purely for movies is a bit over the top i keep a new spare drive just in case
But as i have only about 4TB used at the mo i could buy a 12TB western digital drive make a back up then change the raid but having done this do i assume that when i run out of space i either vertically expand with 10TB disks or buy another nas by which time the 628X might even have been superceeded but then i would need to start off with at least 4 disks be it 10TB each or 12 TB by then and am i right in thinking that Raid 6 offers a 2 disk failure although i don't run my NAS 24 hrs a day its probably only on for 6-8 hrs
If you were to get an 8-bay such as the RN628X there is a way to switch to RAID-6 without needing to destroy the volume and create a new one.
You could disable X-RAID and set the option to add redundancy with the next disk added and add a 7th 4TB disk then once the syncing has commenced you could re-enable X-RAID.
The RN628X was only recently released. It's a new model.
Hi thats great but if i were to upgrade to the 628X i was going to start it off with Seagate 10TB drives moving the data from the 516 over i am using WD red pros 4 TB at the mo but was supprised to find they are not as reliable as i would have thought not that i have had any problems
pgjscottieuk wrote:
... was supprised to find they are not as reliable as i would have thought not that i have had any problems
We haven't seen any Issues with these drives reported here. If you have specifics perhaps post a link.
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