ReadyNAS DUO (v.1) & 4TB - is that possible

LeiNie wrote:

Yep I agree about the priorities of the R&D department when it comes to new products (NetGear's bread & butter), but You hit the nail right on the spot: "The product was introduced in 2008, when the largest available disk drive was only 1.5 TB" BUT the product was still not able to support disks above 2TB. IMHO it's like introducing a non Y2K compatible product on April 1st 1999 - :shock: Ok maybe I exaggerate, and if this custom RAID controller is the main problem You got a pretty good point why not to support disk >2TB, but no matter what "Build for the future" will not be one of key-features for this product :wink:

I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. And I think your timeline is a bit off - 3 TB drives became available in late 2010/2011, so they were not on the immediate horizon in May 2008. While I would have liked it if the larger drives worked, I won't blame Netgear. Even if you go with building your own NAS, the underlying server platform you choose will have limits that you will eventually reach.

LeiNie wrote:

Can anyone confirm that 2TB disk is a hardware related limit or would support of GPT and hence disks >2TB be possible on the v.1 DUO simply by including proper functionality in the compiled ReadyNAS Linux kernel?? After all the v.1 DUO firmware is still evolving (the last firmware (4.1.14) was released on October 13, 2014 so I don't think/hope the product is completely dead - Credit goes to NetGear for that!!

Back on point, the Duo and NV+ are still getting some security and bug fixes but aren't getting new features. (We agree that credit goes to Netgear for that).

I'm not sure why you're stuck on the hardware vs kernel question, since only Netgear can do the work either way (and I think only Netgear engineering can actually answer it). If they were going to do it, it would have happened back in 2011 - when they added it to the 4.2.x products (ultra, pro, nvx).