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RN312 - HCL only showing 6TB max capacity for ALL brands
I just purchased a new RN312 to increase backup storage with 8TB disk on a RAID 1. 8TB disks have been around from quite sometime. We are talking about 4+ years.
Can anyone explain to me how on earth one of the TOP NAS manufactures have a HCL that only goes to 6TB max on any manufacture.
I just spent 1 hour on the phone with Tech support and the guy just keep repating like a broken record that the 8TB drive is not on the HCL. Duh!!!
Seagate and WD have NAS ready drives of 8TB - Which means exactly that - Drives that are designed for NAS (RAID optimize and capable).
Now, Netgear put out firmwares very consistenly, which is a good thing. But until this day they haven't updated their HCL for NAS drives and that is beyond my comprehension.
I'm very fustrated and disapointed with this situation. I'm a ReadyNAS fan and all I install on my clients are ReadyNAS devices. I have never considered anything else. Not even Synology.
Therefore, COULD YOU PLEASEEEEE.... update your HCL to reflect the most current HD sizes.
Question: SHOULD I BUY THE 8TB SEAGATE (ST8000VN0012) ANYWAY AND JUST TRY THEM? WILL IT WORK?. At this time I could careless about the drive not being supported. It will be eventually supported, since this is the same family of Seagate NAS for 2,4,6 and 8TB.
Any comments on this will be greatly appreciated.
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Viyer7 wrote:
8TB disks have been around from quite sometime. We are talking about 4+ years.
Less than 2 years actually (introduced in August 2014) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives#Timeline
6 TB came out in Nov 2013.
Viyer7 wrote:
Question: SHOULD I BUY THE 8TB SEAGATE (ST8000VN0012) ANYWAY AND JUST TRY THEM? WILL IT WORK?.
People here have sucessfully installed 8 TB drives in their OS6 NAS.
I was speaking in technical terms not in end-user market terms. But anyway, still a fact that Netgear is not keeping up with the times on the HCL. Even TWO years is a long time for a tech company.
About you statement: "People here have sucessfully installed 8 TB drives in their OS6 NAS"
Before I spend $400+ on these drives I will need a little more assurance thant that. Could you please point me where do I find someone here that have a RN312 running with a Seagate ST8000VN0012.
Thanks.
Viyer7 wrote:
I was speaking in technical terms not in end-user market terms.
I have no idea what you mean but it likely doesn't matter.
Viyer7 wrote:
But anyway, still a fact that Netgear is not keeping up with the times on the HCL.
We agree there, and it is worse with the legacy NAS. They are beginning to show drives in the same family that they haven't tested, and I'd to see that continue. IMO NAS purposed drives should be assumed to work.
Viyer7 wrote:
About you statement: "People here have sucessfully installed 8 TB drives in their OS6 NAS"
Before I spend $400+ on these drives I will need a little more assurance thant that. Could you please point me where do I find someone here that have a RN312 running with a Seagate ST8000VN0012.
You'll see a few posters who installed the Seagate Archival drives. Those are not recommended for RAID (and they did report some issues). However the size was properly recognized, the raid array successfully built, etc. The issues they reported looked related to SMR to me, and not capacity. Also, it looks like their issues were largely resolved.
I do not recall any posts from people with experiences with other 8 TB drive models. There might well be some, and hopefully they will chime in.
There is a request to add 8 TB drives posted in the "ideas for storage" forum here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-for-ReadyNAS/8-TB-HDD/idi-p/1035290 You should probably vote for that.
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