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I'm about to replace my old NV+ after many years service. The performance leaves a lot to desire and the incidental "Booting, please wait..." lock-up, freaks me out.
Unfortunately I can't afford about 1000 euro to put a loaded RN214 next to it.
I hope I can start with an empty RN214 and my old harddisks. I know I can't place the old RAID-X in a new setup and I might buy new disks over time.
So can you please give me some advice on the options I have?
Can I start with one drive, put my data on it and upgrade with extra drives over time, without restoring or losing the data?
Is it possible to add drives like; start with 1 drive and no RAID, expand to 2 drives RAID 1, 3 drives RAID 3-5 and finaly 4 drives RAID 6?
XRAID will handle the migration from jbod->RAID 1-> RAID 5 automatically. You just insert the new disks.
You can then change to flexraid to get to RAID-6 on the last drive. There is no data loss (note all drives will need to be the same size if you want to land on RAID-6). After the RAID-6 array is built, you can change back to XRAID (or not).
You could start with one 4 TB drive (WD40EFRX perhaps) and add over time - using the NV+ for backup, where the slower performance isn't a problem. That would only add about 170 euro to the RN214 price (making the total about 570), Those costs come from the UK amazon site, converting british pounds to euros with Google.
If that won't work, you could re-use current disks. They are old of course, and aren't on the RN214 compatibily list. That means that Netgear might deny installation support. However, the disks should work ok.
You will need to start fresh, so you will have to have an external backup of your files. The RN214 will need to reformat the existing disks.
Can I start with one drive, put my data on it and upgrade with extra drives over time, without restoring or losing the data?
Is it possible to add drives like; start with 1 drive and no RAID, expand to 2 drives RAID 1, 3 drives RAID 3-5 and finaly 4 drives RAID 6?
XRAID will handle the migration from jbod->RAID 1-> RAID 5 automatically. You just insert the new disks.
You can then change to flexraid to get to RAID-6 on the last drive. There is no data loss (note all drives will need to be the same size if you want to land on RAID-6). After the RAID-6 array is built, you can change back to XRAID (or not).
