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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 several posters who have run into serious issues expanding their NVX, so you probably want to wait until they report the issues are resolved.
New x86 firmware does work with 4 TB drives (though there are none on the NVX HCL). I'm not sure if they don't work, or if Netgear simply didn't bother to test them.
You cannot expand an array more than 8 TB larger than its starting point. If your initial size was 1x2TB then you can't expand it all the way up to 12 TB. Alternatives are to do a factory default with all the new drives in place, or to attempt an off-line expansion with ssh. With either path, you will need a backup.
New x86 firmware does work with 4 TB drives (though there are none on the NVX HCL). I'm not sure if they don't work, or if Netgear simply didn't bother to test them.
You cannot expand an array more than 8 TB larger than its starting point. If your initial size was 1x2TB then you can't expand it all the way up to 12 TB. Alternatives are to do a factory default with all the new drives in place, or to attempt an off-line expansion with ssh. With either path, you will need a backup.
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