ReadyNAS NV+ and 3TB HDD

The NV+ (v1 - silver chassis, runs RAIDiator 4.1.x or earlier) supports disks of up to 2TB in capacity

The NV+ v2 (charcoal chassis, runs RAIDiator 5.3.x) supports some 3TB disks.

See the HCL (choose Legacy and then select the NV+ or NV+ v2 depending on which model you have).

Thank you so much for your fast reply!

Why does the NV+ not support drives over 2TB? I was really hoping eventually a firmware update would keep letting me add bigger and bigger drive to this NAS. I need nothing else out of my NAS at this time other than more space.

Thanks.

There is no GPT support. The product is EOL (End of Life) and 2TB drives will continue to be available for a long time.

Any possible future firmware updates will likely only be for things like fixing security issues and browser compatibility and other bug fixes.

Well that's a shame really, I see no reason to have to keep buying new hardware to just add software support for bigger hard drives, this is a good reason to just build a Linux box in a raid configuration myself if you can not just add simple larger hard drive support to help out your customers.
Remind me not to buy Netgear products again.

It's possible the hardware may not be compatible with GPT (Sparc models were first released in 2004), 3rd party Linux development for the platform stopped a long time before GPT was needed. There are a number of factors.

Any of the models on other hardware platforms support 3TB drives. For example the now discontinued NVX/Ultra/Ultra Plus/Pro originally used MBR but 4.2.16+ converts the MBR partitions to GPT.

I have ReadyNas NV+. First I bought Seagate Baracuda 4TB disc and end up with only 1.6TB size for Volume C. Then I read X-RAID nice features and bought another Seagte 4TB disc. I added it and wait that they "synhronize". And also this end up with only 1.6TB size for Volum C. I have inside 8TB, and only 1.6 TB is available. Is this a joke ? I shutdown and reboot the NAS several times and situation did not change. Then I install addon called forced expansion and what was written in the log "Successfully enabled forced expansion. The next attempted expansion or the next reboot will reflect this change." Of course I did reboot and hoped for the best, but again only 1.6TB available. :rofl: Of course I don't have any idea what is meant by "next attempted expansion" since in the web interface there is no option to access this process (e.g. to start/stop, monitor), so I assume that it should start during reboot. And further, with all this raidar and web nonsense interfaces there is no way to check or see if something is actually going on regarding running forced expansion. I can wait if the process takes time, but I have to see if the process is performing at all ... and when approx. it will end. I am slowly tired of this NAS, will simply take out this 8TB discs and used them in PC that I will change into NAS ...
does anybody have some advice or idea what is wrong and what I should do ?? before throwing away this NAS ??

Is this a NV+ (v1 - silver chassis, runs RAIDiator 4.1.x or earlier)? The NV+ v1 can only handle drives with capacity up to 2TB. Adding a second drive would add redundancy not lead to expansion. When a third drive is added the volume would expand.

The NV+ (v1) hardware is an evolutionary improvement over a product released in February 2006.

NetGear RND4000-100EUS / http://countriesse.netgear.com/Products/Storage/StorageWorkandPlay/RND4000.aspx?detail=Specifications. I don't think this could be a problem,since the manufacturer doesn't talk anything about disc capacity limitations, and that they are capable upto 16 TB.

Well there is no GPT support as I have already mentioned so disks with greater capacity than 2TB are not compatible