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6 TopicsReadyNAS 4312 Hardware That Works
Just wanted to share what I have found does or doesn't work when you put it in a ReadyNAS 4312. Tested with a fresh factory reset on 6.7.5 NICs You can add additional SFP+ or ethernet ports with network cards. These additional ports show up as new interfaces in the "Network" menu on the web interface. I have tested the following network cards: 10GTek Intel X520-DA2 Dual SFP+ 10 gigabit card: Works! (Plug and Play) 10GTek Intel X540-T2 Dual 10Gbe dual ethernet card: Works! (Plug and Play) HP 10Gb Mellanox ConnectX-2 single SFP+ (you can get these around $20 or less online): Did not work! (not very good at driver compilation, someone more advanced at Linux than me might be able to come up with a guide for these) NVMe Card (would be terrific if Netgear could implement some kind of SSD Cache Tiering feature...) Samsung EVO 960 250GB directly plugged into the mPCIe slot on the motherboard: Did not work! Samsung EVO 960 250GB plugged into an ASUS Hyper M.2 x4 Mini Card: Works! (Plug and Play, you can see and format it as /dev/nvme0n1) SATA If you open the chassis and remove the CPU vent hood, there are two working SATA ports on the motherboard. There are two areas inside the chassis where you could mount a 2.5" drive, and there are two SATA power and two 4-pin molex power connectors inside. I would not recommend doing a factory reset and having drives plugged into those onboard ports. They will get added to the same array as the drives in the NAS's bays and they show up weird in the web interface. You cannot start the NAS without at least one drive in the regular 12 hotswap bays and that's true even if you put a internal drive on one of these 2 internal SATA ports. RAM I haven't actually tested putting any additional RAM personally. There's 2 slots occupied by Trascend-branded 8GB of Unregistered ECC DDR4-2133 RAM for a total of 16GB. The official specs sheet for the 4312 and 3312 say it can be upgraded to 64GB of RAM. I suppose you would have to replace the existing 8GB UDIMMs with 4 x 16GB sticks.
ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition Hard Drive
I'm looking for the compatibility list for hard drives, specifically for legacy products. I have a hard drive in a Business Pro that's had increasing reallocated sector counts. Does the compatibility list still exist? I have not been able to find it. Also, I upgraded this Business Pro to 6.6.0 last year and it's been working fine. I see there is a newer version, 6.6.1. I generally like to keep OSs current, but I'm leary because it's such an old unit and I know it's not supposed to officially support 6.6.n. I'd like to hear if anyone else has one of these older units from 6.6.0 to 6.6.1. Thank you in advance.Solved
HGST DeskStar NAS 4TB latest model compatible with RN526X/EDA500? Hard Drive recommendations?
Hello NETGEAR and ReadyNAS Community, I just purchased my first NAS, the six-bay RN526X, along with the five-bay EDA500 expansion chassis with sixth-bay hot spare. My plan is to use six 4TB drives in a Flex-RAID6 volume on the RN526X, and five 4TB drives on the EDA500 in a Flex-RAID5 volume with a hot spare. I want to set up the ReadyNAS to back up the data from the main unit to the EDA500 every night. I've been trying to narrow down my hard drive selection, and have been considering the following combinations: 12 HGST (Hitachi) DeskStar NAS 4TB drives for both units; or Six WD Gold 4TB drives for the RN526X, with six WD Red 4TB drives for the EDA500; or 12 WD Red 4TB drives for both units I've found where to buy the latest model of HGST's DeskStar NAS 4TB drives, HDN726040ALE614. Unfortunately, when checking NETGEAR's ReadyNAS Hard Drive Compatibility List, this current drive model is not listed as compatible for either the RN526X or EDA500 (perhaps it is too new?). None of the Hitachi DeskStar NAS 4TB drive models currently listed as compatible are current, but legacy (meaning discontinued and difficult or impossible to buy new with warranty), according to page 2 of HGST's product sheet. Given this, and Netgear's statement on their Hard Drive Compatibility List that "NETGEAR Support can and will deny support on devices using drives not found on the official compatibility list," I have several questions for NETGEAR: Is the HDN726040ALE614 compatible with the RN526X and EDA500, and if so, will NETGEAR add it to the official compatibility list? Would I still be able to get support via these forums from NETGEAR and/or is my NETGEAR warranty affected in any way if I were to use this specific HGST drive model before it is added to the official compatiblity list (assuming it is compatible)? For the ReadyNAS Community: I am reconsidering getting any WD Reds after having to dig out my old PC to run the DOS-based WDIDLE3 utility on a pair of c. 2014 WD Greens to fix their "Intellipark" head-parking issue. I have read that some of the WD Reds have the same issue, and do not relish the thought of connecting six or 12 of them to my old PC to prevent some or all from parking the disk heads every eight seconds. Can anyone who recently purchased WD Red 4TB drives, model WD40EFRX, confirm that theirs did NOT suffer from this issue? In the WD Reds' favor, they do spin at a lower RPM (which should still be enough to saturate my gigabit Ethernet connection). I am slightly concerned about intermittent reports of heat and/or noise generated by the HGSTs in comparison, but encouraged by their reportedly superior reliability. I would like to order the hard drives ASAP as my new NAS units will be here soon, but I don't want to make a choice I will regret in regards to drive compatibility or reliability. Any suggestions or recommendations would be appreciated. Looking forward to having my data protected with Btrfs & ECC RAM. :) Thanks!
ReadyNAS 2120 not seeing 5 TB USB Drive
I'm having a problem where my ReadyNAS 2120 isn't recognizing my Seagate SRD0NF2 5 TB USB 3.0 Expansion Desktop Drive. I've formatted the drive on my PC and can read/write to it without any issue. The drive has been formatted NTFS with various allocation sizes, none of which seem to do the trick to allow the NAS to see the drive. The documentation for drive compatibility seems to be a bit lacking, but from what I've found if it's readable on a PC it SHOULD be readable by the ReadyNAS. Any ideas folks? Thanks in advance!Solved
