Also my NAS is sitting at about 13TB of stuff accumulated throughout the years and before upgrading the I know I have to back it up. Unfortunately I have no other NAS or place to store the data. Does anyone have any suggestions for a cloud service to put the data on temporarily while I do the upgrade thats not going to cost me an arm and a leg? I just want to do a one time transfer each direction. At least I have gb internet.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a cloud service to put the data on temporarily while I do the upgrade thats not going to cost me an arm and a leg? I just want to do a one time transfer each direction. At least I have gb internet.
The puzzle here is that inexpensive cloud services will probably be much too slow (you won't get anywhere close to your gigabit ISP speed). They are better suited to disaster recovery than your use. I also have gigabit service, and Crashplan (to give one example) generally runs 3-4 megabits.
Getting a couple of USB drives is likely a better bet (and will give you a long term backup solution). RAID isn't enough to keep your data safe.
Re: ReadyNas Pro Business upgrading hardware and to OS6
The 6-bay Pro models are not nearly as particular about the memory they will work with as some would have you believe. I have bought several brands of memory (Corsair, AData, GSkill) PC2-800, usually going for that which has low CAS latency. You do have to stay away from the 2Rx4 (aka "High Density, aka "For AMD") memory, which means 2 x 4GB sticks is costly, so you'll probably want to stick with 2 x 2GB..
You have the latest BIOS, so the E7500 is a good CPU choice.
Re: ReadyNas Pro Business upgrading hardware and to OS6
It has always been my understanding that the older version motherboard would not accept FLAME6-MB V2.0, so having that revision BIOS says the board is the latest. @mdgm-ntgr, you have other info?
Unless you do a lot of extensive parallel processing (like multiple transcodings), the quad core is not going to help you much, and the higher TDP can cause issues.
