READYNAS 426 - drive expansion tray

[allan2019]

The model 426 has an eSATA expansion port, is there a drive expansion tray available

[StephenB]

Netgear used to offer the EDA500, but that's been discontinued.  There were several reports of poor performance, especially during resync and volume maintenance.

This post might also be of interest:  https://community.netgear.com/t5/New-ReadyNAS-Users-General/ReadyNAS-516-Expansion-chassis-options/m...

Though in my opinion you are better off getting larger drives, or getting a second independent NAS (for example the RN214).

[Sandshark]

But I thnk I saw somewhere else on the forum that the 400 and 600 series NAS eSATA ports don't support port multipliers.  I don't have one, so can't try it.

[StephenB]

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@Sandshark wrote:

But I thnk I saw somewhere else on the forum that the 400 and 600 series NAS eSATA ports don't support port multipliers.  I don't have one, so can't try it.

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There is one post from someone using an EDA500 with an RN428: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS-in-Business/bonded-NIC-performance/m-p/1589927#...