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Viyer7
Feb 04, 2016Aspirant
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 e...
StephenB
Feb 04, 2016Guru - Experienced User
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.
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