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4TB hard disks
It is early days yet but 4TB disks are starting to trickle on to the market. I am aware so far of two different makes being launched they being Seagate and Hitachi. Hitachi at least have now made a ki...
There are a couple of expansion issues to be aware of though:
1. You cannot expand past 16TB. You must factory default with that capacity in place. So if you want a single-redundant volume with 6x4TB disks you'll need to backup your data and do a factory reset. A dual-redundant volume would come in under the 16TB limit
2. Limit of 8TB for online expansion of 64-bit system (e.g. Pro) using EXT4 filesystem e.g. if original volume capacity after last factory default was 4TB you can't expand beyond 12TB online.
Is this a permanent problem or is it likely to be resolved in a firmware update?
I am considering purchasing an Ultra6 and was intending on starting with a couple of 4TB drives.
Given the above (and the serious problem of finding 16TB spare to backup NAS - not to mention transferring it all back and forth) it seems that 4TB drives would be a waste and I could save money picking 3TB instead
Is there an solution to this?
Cheers
Rob
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