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Adding a volume failed
I am reaching 80% of storage use on my 2 volumes (2T each) NAS. So I decided to add another disk. I bough the same type (seagate baracuda) but 3T. When I add the disk I receive this message: The ...
reblut wrote:
Its a light-medium grey so I guess its the v1. From what I remember, the spec said that it supported up to 64T, so I was mislead then...
That figure is taken from an old article: What’s new in RAIDiator 4? years before it was determined that GPT support couldn't be added.
reblut wrote:
Is there a way to make my 3T work? I don't want to return it, I bough it from the Internet.
Not in the v1 (runs RAIDiator 4.1.x or earlier).
reblut wrote:
Another thing, how come you say that the v1 support HD under 1T and my 2Ts work fine? what is the real limit?!
I said nothing of the sort. I said that the issue that meant the 3TB drives are not supported leads to them being recognised as having under 1TB of capacity. The v1 units don't have GPT support so drives larger than 2TB in capacity are incompatible.
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