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z0mb13's avatar
z0mb13
Aspirant
Jun 05, 2013

ReadyNAS NV+ and 3TB HDD

Hello,
I'm trying to find information about the possibility to use 3TB hdd with the NV+ NAS device.
In detail if the hdd Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001 3 TB it's compatible.

Thank you so much for any reply :wink:
Regards
Max

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  • Then it is time so sue the Netgear since they are selling something and saying how you can increase capacity with no problems, and when you buy this, i get info on the forum, that it can't handle even small disc like 2 TB ...
  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    2TB disks are compatible. Greater capacity are not. After several years it is not surprising that eventually an expansion limitation has been hit
  • If its a actual hardware limitation that's one thing, but if they refuse to just to add the ability to recognize bigger hard drives to new firmware releases that pretty sad.
    Many of my PC's have had the issue where its a simple Bios update that adds the ability for the system to just see the new sized drives.
    I will not buy a new NAS simply because they refuse to add support for bigger drives to a NAS that works fine right now its just needs more space.
  • The NV was first released by Infrant. I know, I bought one in 2006. And it wasn't a new model then. You are complaining that a nearly 10 year old system will not use the latest and greatest hard drives...

    Really???

    And we should sue Netgear because they didn't know that 3TB hard drives would be incompatible. Heck, 1TB hard drives were not available when this unit was released.

    I think it's actually a testament that you can upgrade it to 2TB. Kudos to ReadyNAS.

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