![]() Times are estimates based on my experience and using 500GB drives. I’m sure there are other methods or slightly different steps then what I’ve outlined below to accomplish the same goal. I considered two methods to accomplish this drive upgrade/replacement. Interestingly, the current cost of these 500GB drives was less then the cost of the 250GB drives at their time of purchase two years ago. My decision for this upgrade was to replace all four of the 250GB drives with 500GB drives. The storage array can only be as large as the smallest drive in the array, minus checksum and overhead space. To increase total storage space you have to increase the size of all four drives. With RAID protection and four drives, the ReadyNAS stripes data across all the drives. Especially when all four drive bays are already in use. Lately the free space has been steadily disappearing.Īdding additional space to a RAID array most isn’t often as simple as adding one larger drive. This device backs up my digital media (music, movies and photos), syncing data automatically each night from my primary computer. I purchased four 250GB drives separately, configuring them into a single array using Infrants X-RAID (Expandable Raid.) This RAID mode allowed acceptable performance, data protection and array expandability (1 drive > 2 drives > 3 drives, ect.).Ĭombined in a single RAID Volume, these four 250 GB drives gave a total usable space of 681 GB, which at the time was more then adequate. When I purchased my ReadyNAS it was a diskless model. I did a review of my ReadyNAS device on Meandering Passage in August ’06 as well as an article concerning a memory upgrade on the device in February ’07. Soon after, Infrant was bought by NetGear and ReadyNAS devices are now being sold under the NetGear name. In 2006 I purchased an Infrant ReadyNAS network storage device.
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