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ReadyNas NV+ Hitachi 3TB Drives.
I just purchased a ReadyNAS NV + 4 Bay, inserted 2 existing Hitachi 3TB Hard Drives (No Data on them) that I had in my old computer, powered everything on and now the Hard Drives read as 768Gb in size...
Well i finally got it all together. now have a readynas Ultra 4 with 4 x 3 Tb Hitachi drives for about 8.5 Tb storage with X-RAID protection (one drive can die and all data stays intact). Not bad.
To others: you have to do the firmware upgrade without a 3 Tb drive (which I could not seem to make happen) or with a drive < 2 Tb. If you use the 3 Tb drive initially, you will not ever realize the 3 Tb of space (ask me how i know that). Instead, I used a single 500 Gb drive, installed the firmware upgrades, then did a factory reset, powered down, removed the 500 Gb drive and stuck in a 3 Tb drive. After power up, the ReadyNAS will begin preparing the drive. Then you just add the other drives and they will get prepared one by one, in order, as each one is done. Then I transferred all my data over after the entire RAID was up and running.
To others: you have to do the firmware upgrade without a 3 Tb drive (which I could not seem to make happen) or with a drive < 2 Tb. If you use the 3 Tb drive initially, you will not ever realize the 3 Tb of space (ask me how i know that). Instead, I used a single 500 Gb drive, installed the firmware upgrades, then did a factory reset, powered down, removed the 500 Gb drive and stuck in a 3 Tb drive. After power up, the ReadyNAS will begin preparing the drive. Then you just add the other drives and they will get prepared one by one, in order, as each one is done. Then I transferred all my data over after the entire RAID was up and running.
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