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Jun 10, 2010

3TB drive compatibility?

I own a ReadyNAS Duo with a pair of 1.5 TB drives. It is starting to get full so I am considering upgrading the drives. I could upgrade to 2TB drives, but that seems like a lot of cost and effort for a 33% increase. So, maybe I should wait for the 3TB drives to come out since they are supposed to come out "in the next few months"; but my questions are:

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Will the ReadyNAS Duo ever be able to support 3TB+ drives?

If so, what kind of ballpark time frame should I be looking at for how long it will be until a firmware update comes out to support them?

Thanks!

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jmirabil
Aspirant
Apr 18, 2011
VERIFIED : So this weekend I verified that using SIX WD30EZRS (with WDIDLE3 /s0 set on all six drives in a separate sata system) works in a pro business under 4.2.16 if you factory default with these 6 drives in place. Works well... 13.6 Tb reported on the OLED.

This WD30EZRS drive should be added to the compatibility list with default jumper settings and with the Wdidle3 /s0 note or the runaway LCC's will prematurely destroy the drive.

FYI: this drive has alot of jumper options- Netgear you should also test those, maybe the performance can be enhanced... the test this last weekend I did used the drives in their default jumper config.
rolski
Aspirant
Jul 19, 2011
Default jumper config being - no jumpers ?

And how did you run wdidle3 - can you do that while the disks are installed in the NAS ?

I have a new Ultra4+ with 4 WD30EZRSDTL's and I'm having trouble getting the 4th disk installed successfully....
PapaBear1
Apprentice
Jul 19, 2011
Wdidle3 must be run while the drive is connected to the SATA connector on the mb of a PC.
rolski
Aspirant
Jul 19, 2011
OK, thanks.