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ReadyNAS DUO (v.1) & 4TB - is that possible
Hi, I need to replace two 2TB disks in one of my beloved ReadyNAS DUOs (v.1). I know the official MAX size is 2TB, but has anyone ever succeeded in getting a stable 4TB X-RAID running on a "v.1 DUO"...
Hard to say, but even a "simple" business decision would take needed engineering resources into account. There is custom RAID acceleration hardware on the V1. The product was introduced in 2008, when the largest available disk drive was only 1.5 TB. It went end of life in 2012 (3 years ago) because it was no longer competitive with ARM platforms that were coming onto the market then. If I were in Netgear's shoes back in 2011 (and I never have worked for them), my first priority would have been getting the new hardware platforms to market.
LeiNie wrote: ...The missing support for GPT formatted drives - is it related to the v.1 Hardware or is it a simple NetGear business decision not to include GPT support in the Linux kernel for the DUO v.1?LeiNie
There are lots of reasons why you might want to consider FreeNAS, but I think the lack of GPT support on an outdated platform is not one of them. I still have one desktop PC in service from that era (2007-2008), and it doesn't have bios support for >2 TB drives either. I don't blame HP for that.
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