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REPLACE HARD DRIVE
the original hard drives in my ReadyNas are Seagate ST2000VX000, SATA 6Gb/s,7200rpm 64MB cache. I want to know if it's posible to replace those hard drive with Seagate ST10000NE0004, SATA 66Gb/s...
sorry, the second hard drive is Seagate ST10000NE0004, SATA 6Gb/s,7200rpm 256MB cache
Your NAS runs OS 4.2.x, which has expansion limits. A volume can't expand more than 8 TiB from it's starting size, and it cannot expand to more than 16 TiB total size. Volumes > 16 TiB can be created, as long as they have equal size disks.
If you stay within those limits, it should recognize the 10 TB drive.
Folks here have used 8 TB drives in OS 4.2.x NAS. I don't recall a poster using 10 TB drives, but there well could be some.
FWIW, I do recommend researching the mounting holes on these larger drives. They likely are using the "alternative" mount positions, which won't be accomodated in your disk trays. You can of course jury-rig something. A poster here drilled holes in the drives - a very bad idea, as there's a reason the alternative mount points are used.
The 3200, 4200, and 4200V2 have very different caddies than the other ReadyNAS units. They are just basic SuperMicro ones that align only with the side holes, and have a hole for all six. I do not believe there is any mounting issue with the larger drives and those caddies.
Assuming you have all 12 slots filled before you want to move to larger drives, you will exceed the expansion limit. The best way around that, IMHO, is to move to OS6.x. While it is not officially suported, there are instructions for making it work and it aleviates some issues related to the very old Debian distro of OS 4.2.x, including any expansion limitations. It does require a factory default, maeing you have to restore your data. But so does expanding to 12x10TB drives. The bigger your array becomes, the more work restoring the data will become if you decide to delay switching over.
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