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Re: ReadyNAS Ultra 6 plus

peters2
Aspirant

ReadyNAS Ultra 6 plus

Looking to purchase a ReadyNAS Ultra 6 Plus.

Would like to load it with 4tb Hard Drives.

Which drives are recommended? Will I be able to end up with 20TB once one drive is lost to the RAID?

Thanks
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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired

Re: ReadyNAS Ultra 6 plus

There are no 4TB disks on the Hard Disk HCL yet so if you have issues you will be denied support. Suggestion would be to:
1. Insert one drive
2. Update to latest RAIDiator
3. Power down, put rest of disks in and do a factory default: http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/boot/how_do_i_use_the_boot_menu

This will give you a clean setup on the latest firmware.

Whilst you could use single-redundancy or RAID-5 to get 20TB before overheads and discrepancy in how space is measured, with that much data I'd use X-RAID2 dual-redundancy or RAID-6.
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peters2
Aspirant

Re: ReadyNAS Ultra 6 plus

How long has the Ultra 6 Plus been on the market?

How do you think it would compare to something like this?

http://www.polywell.com/us/storage/NetDisk800N.asp

Thanks
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StephenB
Guru

Re: ReadyNAS Ultra 6 plus

The Ultra Plus 6 was launched in November 2010. Hardware specs are http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=3962#T ... ifications
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AMRivlin
Apprentice

Re: ReadyNAS Ultra 6 plus

Might I suggest a Pro6 if you are considering the Ultra6. The Pro6 has a faster processor, and while unsupported takes 8GB ram.
I have a Pro6 with 3x 3TB, and I am extremely happy.

I am not sure if it is against the forum rules to post prices, (and mod if it is, sorry), but you can get a Pro6 Shell for ~$800
http://www.documentio.com/product/453/n ... 00NAS.html
(I've actually seen the Pro6 for $749)

and 6 3TB drives for around $1000, giving you dual redundancy and ~12TB of storage for under $2k.
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PapaBear1
Apprentice

Re: ReadyNAS Ultra 6 plus

That is a great price, it's almost $200 less than the Newegg price.
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Flash1
Aspirant

Re: ReadyNAS Ultra 6 plus

Sorry for what may be a stupid question, but is the Ultra 6 Plus still a current product?

It is not listed on the Netgear website:
http://www.netgear.com/home/products/st ... fault.aspx
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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired

Re: ReadyNAS Ultra 6 plus

Interesting. Perhaps they left the Ultra 6 Plus off that page by mistake.

The Ultra 6 Plus is a fast NAS. It's the second fastest desktop ReadyNAS behind the Pro 6. See CPU Specs of the ReadyNAS
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PapaBear1
Apprentice

Re: ReadyNAS Ultra 6 plus

And definitely in current production.
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Flash1
Aspirant

Re: ReadyNAS Ultra 6 plus

Thanks guys, it just surprised me that it wasn't listed on Netgear's website and made me wonder if I'd missed something since I haven't been visiting the forum much lately.

mdgm, it was actually that posting you linked that made us decide on the + model over the regular.
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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired

Re: ReadyNAS Ultra 6 plus

It is a good model with a much faster CPU than the Ultra 6. The Pro 6 has a 5 year warranty (vs 3 year on Ultra/Ultra Plus), business features and an even faster CPU. If you haven't purchased yet I'd consider the Pro 6 too as it does everything the Ultra 6 Plus can plus more.
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