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Upgrade options for ReadNAS Pioneer Pro
I'm after some advice from fellow ReadyNAS owners. I have a ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer Edition with 5 x 2TB drives and one bay empty. The unit (Model#: RNDP600E) is running 4.2.30 with 1024 MB [4-5-5...
You do not need to update the BIOS just to move to OS6. But since it's easier to do it under OS4.2.x, you may want to. If you plan to put in a faster processor, some of them do require the update. You can speed your Pro Pioneer up quite a lot with a faster processor. You may want to bump the memory up to at least 2GB, too.
I have 2 ProBE's and two Pro6's running OS6 and have had no issues with the fans since the early days. Mine are the stock fans or equivalent replacements (not replaced with slower/ lower noise ones). I've not moved to 6.7.1 on my 6-bay units yet, though; I'm still at 6.6.0.
I don't have anything still runing 4.2.x, but I don't think there is any real limitation on the drive size. I think I saw a thread some time ago where somebody put a 6 or 8TB in an NVX with no issue (except that the NVX is pretty slow by today's standards).
Sandshark wrote:
I don't have anything still runing 4.2.x, but I don't think there is any real limitation on the drive size. I think I saw a thread some time ago where somebody put a 6 or 8TB in an NVX with no issue (except that the NVX is pretty slow by today's standards).
There are two expansion limits with 4.2
- a volume cannot expand over 16 TiB
- a volume cannot expand more than 8 TiB from its starting size.
Both create headaches if you add larger drives or try to use mixed sizes with larger drives. Doing a factory default with large drives that are all the same size will generally work with OS 4.2.
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