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 capacity. I am curious as a new volume will be created in the EDA500, so I hupothetically believe this will work, but it is a pricy gamble for me to test this out.
Do you already have the EDA500? If not, you may be better off getting a RN316 for a little more, but getting better performance.
It would be best to wipe the partition table off the old disks from the 516 before putting them into the EDA500.
If you have to you could disable X-RAID, create a volume using the disks in the EDA500 then turn X-RAID back on. The volume in the EDA500 is a separate volume so I think this shouldn't be necessary, but it is something that you can try if required.
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.
@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.
i use my 516 as a plex server as the CPU was more than sufficient for the transcoding I needed and I am/was under the assumption I could just add an EDA500 if I ran out of space.
Currently I have 5 of the bays filled with 4TB drives and I need to add more space.
What I am hoping I can do is this:
1 - Add a 6TB drive in my last slot.
2 - buy an EDA500 and two more 6TB drives when I can afford it.
3 - replace two of the 4TB drives with the 6TB and then reuse the 4TB drives in the EDA500.
And then replace the remains 4TB drives with 6TB drives as time goes on. My thinking is that I can still run the plex server on the 516, yet create new plex libraries on the EDA500 volume with the 4TB drives I will be taking out of the 516.
I hope this is the information you were inquiring about, and I thank you for your time and response.
My thinking is that I can still run the plex server on the 516, yet create new plex libraries on the EDA500 volume with the 4TB drives I will be taking out of the 516.
You should be able to do that. I don't think the RN516 will read the EDA500 volume as quickly as it will the internal volume, but it should be more than fast enough to keep up with video streaming.
