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Dec 22, 2010

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 each. Any ideas on how I get them to be recognised as 3TB or there abouts. I have been fiddling around with the setting (X-Raid, Flex-Raid etc.) for a few days but no dice. Your input will be met with praise.

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PapaBear1
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Jun 01, 2012
That is correct. The 3TB drives require GPT rather than MBR formatting and the sparc based units cannot do this. Neither can the older PC's. Here is an article on that.