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Seagate NAS drives including ST4000VN000 - now on HCL
There is only one thread on the entire forum about this drive. Has anyone installed these drives? There is a paucity of 4 Tb drives on the HCL. Edit: now whole series is on HCL Hopefully good a...
If red are on the list, this would indeed not apply.
I believe disks are pretty much the same nowadays, at least the core features are similar. it would make more sense to state minimal requirements and recommend drives rather that deny support. I believe there are only a few drives manufacturers out there (three ?) since they are buying each other, I think they use pretty much the same hardware for all their disks to do some scale savings (I'm not sur of the word, but I meant do savings by producing in greater amounts). The only thing that is interesting for Netgear is the controller, if two disks have identical controllers then test one and the other will also be compatible. They should be able to grab tech specs from the manufacturers and check that.
I believe disks are pretty much the same nowadays, at least the core features are similar. it would make more sense to state minimal requirements and recommend drives rather that deny support. I believe there are only a few drives manufacturers out there (three ?) since they are buying each other, I think they use pretty much the same hardware for all their disks to do some scale savings (I'm not sur of the word, but I meant do savings by producing in greater amounts). The only thing that is interesting for Netgear is the controller, if two disks have identical controllers then test one and the other will also be compatible. They should be able to grab tech specs from the manufacturers and check that.
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