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ReadyNAS NV+ v1 (Silver) and 3TB HDD
I have been reading some comments posted in this forum which appear to be misleading regarding 3Tb Hard drive compatibility with respect to the older ReadyNAS NV+ (silver) units. FOR THE RECORD, I...
Well, I don't claim to understand how your setup worked. There's plenty of other posters who have tried to install 3 TB drives in their v1 NAS with no success at all. GPT formatting is required to fully use any drive > 2 TB - the addressing in the older MBR format doesn't have enough bits for anything more. The only way around that limit is to use multiple partitions on the drive for the data volume, which the NV+ doesn't do. And Netgear is very clear that GPT support isn't there. So this is a puzzle.
Do you remember what the NAS said your volume size was? Were you using flexraid (if so which mode) or xraid?
If I get around to it, I might try pulling the drives from my NV+ v1, and inserting a WDC 3 TB green drive, just to see what happens.
Do you remember what the NAS said your volume size was? Were you using flexraid (if so which mode) or xraid?
If I get around to it, I might try pulling the drives from my NV+ v1, and inserting a WDC 3 TB green drive, just to see what happens.
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