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Naversten
Feb 02, 2011Aspirant
ReadyNAS 3200
I'm about to buy a ReadyNAS 3200. I want two things in place before I buy: a) possibility to utilize 3TB-disks. I want to make sure that the hardware will not impose restrictions. Will there for su...
MCCS
Mar 31, 2012Aspirant
mdgm wrote: Yes you can use 12x2TB disks (would give you less than 20TB after redundancy and overheads but more than 16TB), but you have to factory default with the disks in place to get a larger volume than 16TB.
With 3TB disks, you could have 3TB disks in bays 1-4 and 2TB disks in 5-12. Using 4.2.16 beta that would give maximum capacity. Of course only enterprise disks should be used in the 3200 if you value your data at all.
Is this still in place?
that yo uneed to factory reset if you need more then 16tb?
i am currently expanding my system from 12x (6x1tb+6x2tb) to 12x2tb this would put me well over the 16tb mark!
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