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

OK,

Just stumbled over an old post from ahpsi:

by ahpsi » Thu Dec 02, 2010 4:24 pm: There's an interesting article from MPR online about Infrant and it's decision to license LEON from the European Space Agency -> http://www.kaltech.co.il/pdf/LEONSPARRAIDProcessor.pdf and of course Wikipedia on LEON -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON.

So the design of the ReadyNAS SPARC platform was already at least 3 years old when the v1. DUO was introduced in 2008 - pretty aged technology and my initial claim the this might not have been a product "build for the future" holds true!
I don't blame anybody for this - I could have been more thorough in my product research back then - and perhaps still bought my two DUOs because they look good :o .

Anyway looking into the Kaltech pdf it mentions that

One core is the CPU, which runs the RAIDiator operating system and other embedded software, assisted by a hardware RAID engine.

and if this RAID engine is software based (flashable) I see no obstacles for rewriting this code to support GPT - on the other hand I accept that this might not be economical feasible - unless proper GPT supporting source code exists and can be ported to this dated European Space Agency platform (sometimes the history is fascinating :roll: ).

Anyway I might just sit back and stick with the 2TB disk limit and say to my self: "It is probably possible, but no one is going to do it."

Thanks for all your feedback!

Regards
LeiNie