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Aspirant

Sep 24, 2016

Using readynas formatted disks in a EDA 500

I have one slot available in my readynas 516. If I switch out all my hard drives with higher capacity disk, is it possible to use my old drives in the eda500 as they are still good, they are just less...

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frankpdx

Aspirant

Sep 25, 2016

Thank you moderator.

The reason why I want to do this is I run a Plex server on my readynas, this is why I want to add an EDA500. If I get the RN316, will I be able to add it to a plex share on my RN516 as I do not think this will be possible because if this is the case, it seems I should have never bought a 516 at all as I thought I could just daisy chain EDA500s.

Thank you,

Frank

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Sep 25, 2016
frankpdx wrote:
I thought I could just daisy chain EDA500s.

You can (creating separate volumes on each). mdgm is just pointing out that performance of a RN516+RN316 is generally better than an RN516+EDA500. Two CPUs instead of one, four NICs instead of two...

frankpdx wrote:
If I get the RN316, will I be able to add it to a plex share on my RN516 as I do not think this will be possible

This is easy to do with plex running on a Windows PC (just enter \\nasname\sharename when you add a folder). But I don't think that will work with the linux plex server - I think you'd have to mount the share on the RN516. That is possible with ssh, but it would take some work if you want it to automount.
- frankpdx
  Aspirant
  Sep 25, 2016
  Thank you for the response.
  
  it appears I was wrong about the capabilities of the 516 as a plex server.
  
  thank you,
  
  Frank
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Sep 25, 2016
    frankpdx wrote:
    
    it appears I was wrong about the capabilities of the 516 as a plex server.
    
    I'm confused about what you mean here. Can you tell us what are wanting it to do?
    
    Neither mdgm nor I said the NAS won't stream with plex with EDA500s attached.
    
    BTW, how much space do you need for your library now, and what disks are installed in the RN516?