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Netgear NV+ (RND 4000) - how to connect large discs without formatting
Hello. I purchased a device for the ability to connect four disks to it - 2 by 3 TB and 2 by 2 TB. Use as a storage of different files. Questions: 1) Does the device support large disks? What is t...
While there are no specific size limitations in the latest OS for your NAS, there are expansion limits. Any absolute size limitations you see in online specs are old and based on the available drive size at the time your NAS was released, about 10 years ago, At some point, the RAM and CPU limitations of the NVX likely make larger drives sizes impractical, but not impossible.
The older NAS also don't handle differently-sized drives as well as the new OS6 ones. But as long as you start with all the drives, you should get 3TB + 2 x 2TB available (the remaing 3TB dedicated to RAID redundancy, assuming you are using XRAID).
The only way you can use a drive with data already on it with the NAS is in a USB enclosure. If you insert it internally, the NAS will wipe it clean with a Linux EXT format.
While you didn't ask, your NAS cannot be updated to OS6. While some legacy units can, the NVX is a 32-bit system, so it can't.
So, OK, I understand about the disks with the files, thanks!
Just do not understand whether it is possible to connect in series each disk and use all 4 disk without RAID?As if all the drives are connected to a network and can be seen in a networked environment?
And yet, when I installed a 3TB drive, the device formatted it for only 700 GB. The rest of the volume remained empty ...
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