Christopher Ward
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I just recently finished upgrading my Raid-Z2 Dataset from 10x 3TB WD RED Drives to 10x 4TB WD Red Drives which took over a year and i'm a little disappointed that it only shows as 26.7TB total space (5TB left to use of that which will easily get used up with all my media consumption and computer back ups) so i've been looking at upgrading my storage again and an opportunity has risen for more storage than i could ever see myself needing.
I have special codes for the WD online store that stack and allow me to buy 20TB My book duo's for £335 (£559 RRP). The Duos come with 2x 10TB WD Red Drives so i'm effectively getting each drive for £167. These drives are currently selling for over £300 on amazon for a single drive.
I don't plan on buying 5 of these duo's at the moment (would be nice if i had the cash) but if i buy one or two now and down the line and they change the model number of the drives inside the duo's or i eventually just buy some wd red 10tb's individually to expand my current Raid-Z2 can you mix model numbers of drives inside the dataset?
I also only have 16GB of ECC RAM for my server at the moment and i haven't noticed any issues, should i? my motherboard only supports 32GB RAM so i can upgrade the RAM as well but i haven't had any issues yet with 16GB?
I have special codes for the WD online store that stack and allow me to buy 20TB My book duo's for £335 (£559 RRP). The Duos come with 2x 10TB WD Red Drives so i'm effectively getting each drive for £167. These drives are currently selling for over £300 on amazon for a single drive.
I don't plan on buying 5 of these duo's at the moment (would be nice if i had the cash) but if i buy one or two now and down the line and they change the model number of the drives inside the duo's or i eventually just buy some wd red 10tb's individually to expand my current Raid-Z2 can you mix model numbers of drives inside the dataset?
I also only have 16GB of ECC RAM for my server at the moment and i haven't noticed any issues, should i? my motherboard only supports 32GB RAM so i can upgrade the RAM as well but i haven't had any issues yet with 16GB?