ReadyNAS RN202 And HGST Deskstar NAS 6TB hard drives

I have WD60EFRX in mine, and they work fine. No 6 TB drives are on the current HCL (not sure why, since the data sheet explicitly says 6 TB drives).

Thanks for your reply. I'm getting my drives tomorrow so I'll report back. I'm expecting them to also work. It's frustrating to not see more info on this NAS model, and that HCL list seems to be a bit outdated.

Well, stuck the drives in the NAS, fired her up and voila. They work. Currently rebuilding the volume, so I'll be able to play and run some tests in about 6 hours...

I can say they only show as 5.5TB. I somehow lost half a terabyte in this deal. ;(

ZBoater wrote:
...I can say they only show as 5.5TB. I somehow lost half a terabyte in this deal. ;(

No you didn't.

The NAS displays capacity in TiB, not TB. 1 TiB is larger than 1 TB (1 TiB= 1024*1024*1024*1024 bytes; 1 TB= 1000*1000*1000*1000*1000).

If you work the math, 6 TB is the same as 5.45 TiB.

Yeah, I know. But at what point does common sense override this obscure 1024 math? I mean, 500GB??? Maybe they should use TiB instead of TB. Its the 21st century. Its time this disconnect between engineering and marketing be resolved.

ZBoater wrote:
Yeah, I know. But at what point does common sense override this obscure 1024 math? I mean, 500GB??? Maybe they should use TiB instead of TB. Its the 21st century. Its time this disconnect between engineering and marketing be resolved.

It is NOT a disconnect between engineering and marketing. It is a long standing disconnect within engineering (and dates back 40 years).

Apple changed over to decimal units for disks in OSX 10.6. If Microsoft switched also, then we'd all end up on the same page for disks (since Linux can show either units)...

Memory would still use the 1024 units though.