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kolothuk
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Aug 18, 2014

> 4tb support readynas 104

Does the readynas 104 support hard drives greater than 4tb either officially/unofficially?

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  • Officially this is not supported yet as there are nothing higher than 4Tb in HCL :
    http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detai ... hard-disks

    Unofficially this would require some test but I think the addressing limit was from 3Tb drives to 4Tb drives, so I think the NAS can address 5Tb or 6Tb drives but since I'm not sure of it at all, I would NOT recommend buying those disks for several reasons :
    1°) If they are not on HCL Netgear could refuse to help if you have a problem
    2°) They are not cheap at all and it may be a better play to have two NAS with smaller disks (that's to check)
    3°) The compatibility hasn't been extensively tested
    4°) if you need more than 12Tb in raid5, you probably want a more powerful unit to handle more users at a time.

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