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jimk1963
Jul 21, 2019Luminary
Add SSD drive(s) to RN528X
My RN528x is configured with 8x4TB Toshiba HDD's. Product arrived preconfigured with X-RAID, which chose a RAID 6 configuration. System reports about 21TB usable out of 32TB. I've only loaded up 2TB ...
StephenB
Jul 27, 2019Guru
Understood, and adorso87 said he tried it putting an SSD in that slot. He then found that nothing changed in the web ui - though it's conceivable the added nvme SSD could still be used by the NAS if it were manually formatted and mounted with ssh.
adorso87
Jul 29, 2019Tutor
StephenB wrote:though it's conceivable the added nvme SSD could still be used by the NAS if it were manually formatted and mounted with ssh.
I'm not familure with SSH, if you have any info for me to give it a try link it for me and I'll see if I can get it to work. In the end the drive wouldn't be able to do much, cacheing on ReadyNAS isn't worth the extra expense.
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