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upgarge NV+ from 500GB drives to ?
We have a NV+ that I bought in 2007. The description on the invoice is: NETGEAR ReadyNAS NV+ RND4450 - NAS - 2 TB - Serial ATA-150 - HD 500 GB x 4 - RAID 0, 1, 5 - Gigabit Ethernet
The existing hard drives are Seagate Barracuda ST3500 500GB which I believe are 16MB cache at 3Gb/S. We now need to increase the amount of storage we backup. We currently save all files on our small business server and backup to the NAS. Our outsource IT guy wants us to stop saving files on the server itself and instead save files directly to the NAS and backup to the cloud. Obviously this would be a big change in the way we store and backup files.
My outsource IT guy has told me to get a buffalo linkstation pro 6TB which is roughly $500 to store all of our files on. I am not sold on this. I believe my Netgear NV+ is built better even though it is 5 years old. Am I wrong? Or should I just get the buffalo linkstation pro?
If I upgrade the NV+ I am not sure which drive to go with. I found the comparison table and I am looking at getting either 4 1TB or 2 TB drives. The 1TB drives would double what I have now which would be ample for now. I would consider the 2TB drives only because it is not that much more expensive.
In selecting the drives to purchase I do not know if I should go with 3Gb/s or 6Gb/s and 32MB or 64MB of cache. It seems like rotational vibration safeguard is important. Only one of the 2TB drives on the list has it and it only has 32MB of cache. If the cache is as important as I think it is I believe there are no good 2TB options. Then looking at the 1TB drives the WD RED WD10EFRX is only one at 6Gb/s and 64MB of cache with rotational vibration safeguard.
With all that being said, should I upgrade my 2007 NV+ or buy a new Buffalo LinkStation Pro? If I upgrade the NV+ which drives should I go with?
Thank you all in advance for your help,
Steven
The existing hard drives are Seagate Barracuda ST3500 500GB which I believe are 16MB cache at 3Gb/S. We now need to increase the amount of storage we backup. We currently save all files on our small business server and backup to the NAS. Our outsource IT guy wants us to stop saving files on the server itself and instead save files directly to the NAS and backup to the cloud. Obviously this would be a big change in the way we store and backup files.
My outsource IT guy has told me to get a buffalo linkstation pro 6TB which is roughly $500 to store all of our files on. I am not sold on this. I believe my Netgear NV+ is built better even though it is 5 years old. Am I wrong? Or should I just get the buffalo linkstation pro?
If I upgrade the NV+ I am not sure which drive to go with. I found the comparison table and I am looking at getting either 4 1TB or 2 TB drives. The 1TB drives would double what I have now which would be ample for now. I would consider the 2TB drives only because it is not that much more expensive.
In selecting the drives to purchase I do not know if I should go with 3Gb/s or 6Gb/s and 32MB or 64MB of cache. It seems like rotational vibration safeguard is important. Only one of the 2TB drives on the list has it and it only has 32MB of cache. If the cache is as important as I think it is I believe there are no good 2TB options. Then looking at the 1TB drives the WD RED WD10EFRX is only one at 6Gb/s and 64MB of cache with rotational vibration safeguard.
With all that being said, should I upgrade my 2007 NV+ or buy a new Buffalo LinkStation Pro? If I upgrade the NV+ which drives should I go with?
Thank you all in advance for your help,
Steven
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- If you're happy with the performance of your existing NAS stick with that. I think the NV+ (v1) is SATA 1.5Gb/s anyway. Disk speed might make a small difference to performance but there are other bottlenecks such as the CPU.
If you go with 2TB drives, be aware of 4k sector partition alignment. Take a look at Why you might want to factory reset a Sparc ReadyNAS - I do not know how my NV+ performs since it only backs up files at night. If we make the change we would instead be storing all of our files that we constantly access on the NV+ and then backing up to the cloud.
- Take a look at ReadyNAS Performance Expectations
- saengineer - if you have a small group of people who would be accessing the files on the NV+, it should do fine. Where the speed and power of the NV+ start to falter is on video files and a large group of people trying to access files at the same time. If you need a faster unit and like the physical characteristics of the NV+, perhaps the Ultra 4 Plus or Pro 4 (has business features such as Active Directory).
I happen to really like back ups, so if you go with a faster unit, make sure it supports rsync (all the x-86 based ReadyNAS units do) and then you can use the NV+ as an rsync target and also back up to the cloud. You would then have the benefits of a local backup as well as the off site (cloud based) backup.
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