R210 As NAS

[Misinthe]

Hey guys so like the title say, I'm planning on buying a used R210 off of ebay to convert to a NAS, I just have a question if anyone could help me answer. 

I read it only has 2 Hard drives bays but more than that, i read that it only supports up to 2TB max internal storage. Can anybody verify this? because I wanted at least like 8TB storage on my NAS, so I might have to think about another type of server. Thanks in advance for the comments!

[DioOmicida]

https://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/poweredge-r210-spec-sheet_en.pdf
Maximum Internal Storage: 2TB
That's what the model sheets say.

[tt2468]

I have used the r210 for 4tb drives. The only thing about the r210 is that it only has 2 drive bays.

[Misinthe]

41 minutes ago, Kyle Manning said:

I have used the r210 for 4tb drives. The only thing about the r210 is that it only has 2 drive bays.

So why would it say max capacity 2tb? You think back then that was the max?

[Misinthe]

2 hours ago, JaredM54 said:

You can get above the 2tb maximum on the R210 but if you're looking to get a server for a NAS I would spend a little more and get an R310 or if you want even more space an R510.

Price difference between R210 and R510 is like $250

[Misinthe]

1 minute ago, JaredM54 said:

Which is why I said the R210 will work with bigger drives but recommended the R310.

Oh sorry, I was thinking about the r310, I can get it for only like $40 more than the R210, althought it has a Xeon X3430 instead of a X3450 like the R210 I don't think that would make much of a difference with FreeNAS and I get up to 4 drives, now my question is....

 

1 hour ago, Kyle Manning said:

I have used the r210 for 4tb drives. The only thing about the r210 is that it only has 2 drive bays.

If Kyle used 2x4TB on the R210, quadrupling the capacity, would I be able to get 4x8TB on the R310 thus quadrupling it's capacity also? Since it also allows up to 32GB RAM I would be good still. What do you guys think?

[Misinthe]

3 minutes ago, JaredM54 said:

Higher capacity drives should be fine with the R310 as well, so in my opinion that would be the best option.

Yeah, room to expand is something I really need, up until now I used a WD my Cloud for all my files, but I recently got married so now I got multiple data and systems trying to use it, so as the family grows I want to be able to grow it. Thank you for all your help everyone!!