ReadyNAS NV+ v1 (Silver) and 3TB HDD

MDS1968 wrote:
but ease off on the 'Spanish Inquisition'

Starting off by saying we are misleading people is likely to provoke a reaction :shock: I don't think you meant it as an accusation, but it is easy to read your initial post that way.

MDS1968 wrote:
The volume size was well over 8Tb. From memory, I believe the LCD display showed approximately 8.5 not 9, but ease off on the 'Spanish Inquisition' as I posted here to help others and do not profess to be an expert. In essence, the hardware worked, I was content and I had no reason to examine it further as I was not aware of any 3Tb issues back in February!

If you look at the other two posts I linked, you'll see that their experiences were quite different from yours (and one was using the same disks). They were using Duo v1s, not NV+ v1, though technically that shouldn't have mattered and other folks have tried to insert 3 TB drives in NV+ v1 with no success. Many were very angry when it failed.

Your experience is very unusual to say the least, and no one here has ever heard of you before. I am puzzled by it because there is no technical explanation, and on its face, it sounds impossible - so I am also skeptical. But you sound sincere, are providing details, and you aren't attempting to explain it; you are instead inviting other people to try to duplicate your results.

You did provide hardware details, but that is not the full story. Confirming volume size and xraid/flexraid are very relevant followups. You answered one, but not the other (though if I were to guess you used the default xraid). Also the migration path is relevant. We don't know if you hot-inserted the new disks one by one and resynced, or if you did a fresh factory install with them all in place. It might matter.

vandermerwe wrote:
The reason for my concern is that your experience is not representative of what is likely to happen if other users do this.

Certainly that is the case. Though we do have people here who have modified their hardware in various ways, and pushed beyond Netgear limits. Some will certainly try the 8 TB seagate archival drive when it becomes available later this month. It will be a risk, Seagate makes no claims that the drive will work in a RAID array; and on top of that 8 TB drives in a ReadyNAS is new territory.

This is clearly experimental, based on forum experience the most likely outcome is failure, and even if somehow it works it might have issues - would a raid repair succeed??? who knows?

At this point it certainly is not for normal users, it is for hobbyists who might be inclined to play around. It would be a very bad idea to try this without full backups (or blank disks).

Though if people understand all that, there is no harm in trying the experiment. It won't brick the NAS, and it won't brick the disks either.