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miogpsrocks
Nov 26, 2015Tutor
Are 4TB Hard drives ok for the XRAID2 Firmware ?
Hi. I have a 6 drive bay Readynas with the X-raid 2 firmware and I'm wondering if I can fill it up with 4TB hard drives? Thanks. P.S. What the heck happen to this forum. Where is the blue...
- Nov 26, 2015
Yes. Doing a factory reset you will be able to fully utilise the space on the disks.
miogpsrocks
Nov 26, 2015Tutor
I am sorry I had been up all night doing black friday shopping in I'm not thinking straight. I read your post again and now all I see that is saying the opposite of what I thought. I am just confusing expanding the volume verses starting out with a factory default reset. In my situation l am only doing a factory default reset from scratch and never expanding.
So 6 x 4tb capacity before parity and overhead etc....
mdgm-ntgr
Nov 26, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
Yes. Doing a factory reset you will be able to fully utilise the space on the disks.
- miogpsrocksNov 26, 2015Tutor
Awesome!!!!!! Works for me.
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