4TB drives alternatives for RN102, not listed in HCL

Question

Folks,&nbsp;I am reconsidering a purchase of 2X4TB drives for more economical options.I would like to stick to 7200RPM, so this eliminates a whole bunch of WD, HGST and Seagate drives.I am really intrigued by the Toshiba N300 series, which state to be for NAS applications.However, these models are not on the HCL.&nbsp; Considering the HCL is from 9 months ago, is there a chancethese drives haven't made the list yet?I did not find relevant and recent discussion about this topic.&nbsp;Thank you,Pescatore&nbsp;

OOM-9 · Answer

The date on the support site does not reflect when the hard drive hcl tool gets updated. The tool does get updated regularly and the most recent update was in the past week.
We are looking to qualify the Toshiba NAS drives. We have spoke to Toshiba to better understand the differnces they have changed to this specific drive. It sounds like will have not issues getting qualified once we are at the stage of fulling qualifying and adding it to the HCL.
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We do have the newer Toshiba Desktop and Enterprise since they are existing drives from the market. This newer Toshiba drive model that is acting as a blend of the two models, so&nbsp; we are looking forward to getting it added to the HCL.

Marty_M · Answer

Hello pescatore,

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It does appear that you would like consider using&nbsp;Toshiba N300 series on your Readynas however it is not listed as compatible hard drives under HCL. The hard drives listed on the HCL are tested and proven that work well with&nbsp;readynas devices. We highly recommend to get a hard drives that are listed on the HCL for your readynas device. We can wait for any recommendations from community member that might have gone to the same process.

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Please note that&nbsp;NETGEAR Support can and will deny support on devices using drives not found on the official compatibility list.
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Regards,
Marty_M&nbsp;
NETGEAR Community Team

Marty_M · Answer

Hello pescatore,
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We’d greatly appreciate hearing your feedback letting us know if the information we provided has helped resolve your issue or if you need further assistance. If your issue is now resolved, we encourage you to mark the appropriate reply as the “Accept as Solution” or post what resolved it and mark it as solution so others can be confident in benefiting from the solution.&nbsp;

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The Netgear community looks forward to hearing from you and being a helpful resource in the future!

Regards,
Marty_M
NETGEAR Community Team

pescatore · Answer

Hello Marty_M,Thanks for the details.Rephrasing my question:&nbsp; Does anyone know if there is an update to the list coming soon, given that it is almosta year old (Last Updated:11/28/2016 | Article ID: 20641)&nbsp;Thanks,Pesc

Marty_M · Answer

Hello pescatore,

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We have not receive any notification when the HCL will be updated. We all know and agree that there are&nbsp;a lot of changes happen everyday in the storage community, we cannot tell it may be updated soon. For now we recommend to stick on the HCL.&nbsp;

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Regards,
Marty_M&nbsp;
NETGEAR Community Team

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4TB drives alternatives for RN102, not listed in HCL

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