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HGST 4 TB Deskstar 7K4000 in ReadyNAS Pro 6
I know these drives are drives are not on the HCL but does anyone have experience running them successfully in a Pro 6 unit? Or any ReadyNAS unit for that matter? The prices have dropped pretty sign...
While not officially supported users have found 4TB drives to work find for them. YMMV. If you do choose to use unsupported disks it is especially important that you make sure that your backup of important data primarily stored on the NAS is up to date.
Also note a few expansion limitations.
1. Online expansion is limited to 8TB over the life of the volume. If your volume was 5.4TB in capacity when you last did a factory default you cannot expand past 13.4TB.
2. Expansion past 16TB is not possible. You would need to factory default with the drives in place. This limitation shouldn't be an issue unless you intend to use X-RAID2 single-redundancy (definitely not recommended if using 6x 4TB disks).
Also note a few expansion limitations.
1. Online expansion is limited to 8TB over the life of the volume. If your volume was 5.4TB in capacity when you last did a factory default you cannot expand past 13.4TB.
2. Expansion past 16TB is not possible. You would need to factory default with the drives in place. This limitation shouldn't be an issue unless you intend to use X-RAID2 single-redundancy (definitely not recommended if using 6x 4TB disks).
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