I took advantage of a sale and bought 4 14TB Red Pro drives and just got done installing them. Running them in RAID 10 so I will have 28GB usable space. Already loading my data to them.
A huge increase for me. I had 4 6TB drives also in RAID 10 for a total of 12TB. So I went from 12TB to 28TB.
I will put 2 of the old 6TB into my DL2100 which currently has 2 4TB RAID 0 for a total of 8TB. The 2 old 6TB drive will also run in RAID 0 for a total of 12TB. The DL2100 is where my PCs do backups.
So I’m setup with additional storage for quite a while!
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Cool. Mass NAS’s for the masses.
WD still has a sale and I realized that I can have the 18TB drives on my PR4100. I got confused when I saw an EX4100 and thought it was the PR4100 and thought the maximum it seemed it could have was 56TB, so that is why I limited myself to that.
I realized my mistake and with the sale still going on, I ordered 4 18TB Red Pro drives for a total storage of 72TB and running RAID 10, I will only have 36TB. Still a ton of space. But I do eat up a lot of space with photography. I like to save photos in RAW format and they do eat up a lot of space. Not to mention, HD video.
I even decided to update a DL2100 and ordered a PR2100. The DL2100 has been the NAS my computers do backups to.
Now maybe backups will run a little quicker, but I doubt it. I think my bottle neck is the 1GB Ethernet adapters on my PCs.
I know the PR4100 and PR2100 have two 1GB adapters and in essence are suppose to be able to handle 2TB with two LAN cables connected.
I don’t know if my Linksys switches can actually pass more than 1GB. Maybe time to also update my switches and also have two Ethernet adapters on my main PC so I can get 2GB.
Has anyone played around with 2GB LAN adapters and two ports connected to a PR2100 or PR4100 and can verify that the drive can handle 2GB?
New photo will be posted in about a week when I get my new drives. An awesome amount of space 
extra RAM may help a bit and many times are left over from ram upgrades of other systems.
You are going to need a lot more 9-track magnetic tape to backup those disks
no idea if this works on WD NAS or if the speed up is worth it in the long run.
And my final upgrade to 4 18TB WD Red Pro drives in RAID 10 mode. 72TB but 36TB in RAID 10. Plenty of space!!
I do have two switches, but no really sure if I will gain any speed since my PC is still only 1GB. Maybe having Link Aggregation will help when also using another device also at 1GB. Will it truely be able to transfer at 2GB?
I will test and see.
let us know.
for systems like this Link Aggregation may not help for single user and large file speed but may help when more users.
I got better speed on backing up large files by moving from raid5 to raid10.
(the old - problem solving by spending more money)
I did connect the second LAN cable and selected Adaptive Load Balancing. I have seen anything negative yet. But haven’t been able to test yet if multiple people hitting it at the same time has improved.
I need to get at least two PCs with Gigabit NICs doing large transfers at the same time to if the can both go at 1GB.
