firmware cc42 date 12047 dom 7/2011bare drive pulled from usb3 external @ http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FreeAgent ... 914&sr=8-1single drive, boot menu factory defaulted, all frontview defaults.ultra 4: 4.2.20-t4, no JF, single nic217 MB (0%) of 3696 GB usedCh 1 : Seagate ST4000DX000-1C5160 [3726 GB] 3721 GB allocateddrag/drop 15g from ssd via cifs gbit to default backup sharepeaks of ~80-85 mibswindows dialog reported speed ~45 mibspro business (v1): 4.2.17, no JF, single nic217 MB (0%) of 3696 GB usedCh 1 : Seagate ST4000DX000-1C5160 [3726 GB] 3721 GB allocateddrag/drop 15g from ssd via cifs gbit to default backup sharepeaks of ~115mibswindows dialog reported speed ~79 mibsreading same 15g file back to ssd showed 110 on windows copy dialog, constant 115-118 on netmeterother notes;only 1 drive at this time, so unable to test raid/expansiondrive seems to be pretty quiet, can't really hear it over the device fansspent about 30 minutes on each device, so no extended testing, just setup and a few drag/drop transfersCan't wait for tax return time or saving up for 5 more drives, I'm looking forward to 6x 4tb in dual redundancy.Model: ST4000DX000-1C5160Serial: Z1[removed]Firmware: CC42SMART AttributeSpin Up Time 0Start Stop Count 10Reallocated Sector Count 0Power On Hours 1Spin Retry Count 0Power Cycle Count 10Reported Uncorrect 0High Fly Writes 0Airflow Temperature Cel 31G-Sense Error Rate 0Power-Off Retract Count 8Load Cycle Count 16Temperature Celsius 31Current Pending Sector 0Offline Uncorrectable 0UDMA CRC Error Count 0Head Flying Hours 187685775867905ATA Error Count 0

added second 4tb drive to ultra 4Sun Nov 6 02:19:00 CST 2011 RAID sync finished on volume C. Sat Nov 5 20:08:54 CDT 2011 Data volume has been successfully expanded to 6471 GB. Sat Nov 5 17:33:38 CDT 2011 System is up. Sat Nov 5 17:33:33 CDT 2011 Continuing with volume expansion or migration. Do not interrupt the system during this time. When complete, email notification will be sent to the alert contact list. Sat Nov 5 17:31:20 CDT 2011 Rebooting device... Sat Nov 5 17:31:20 CDT 2011 Please close this browser session and use RAIDar to reconnect to the device. System rebooting... Sat Nov 5 17:25:10 CDT 2011 Found space that can be used to expand capacity, expansion process will start during next boot. Sat Nov 5 17:25:05 CDT 2011 Found space that can be used to expand capacity, expansion process will start during next boot. Sat Nov 5 17:24:23 CDT 2011 Found space that can be used to expand capacity, expansion process will start during next boot. Sat Nov 5 17:24:01 CDT 2011 RAID sync finished on volume C. Sat Nov 5 11:29:08 CDT 2011 RAID sync started on volume C. Sat Nov 5 11:28:43 CDT 2011 Data volume will be rebuilt with disk 4.

Do you have any idea what the specs are on this drive? RPM, Cache, etc? Or even which seagate drive class it is? I can't seem to find anything detailed from seagate yet. Thanks.

Also, I wonder if those enclosures could take a smaller seagate drive. Hmmm. If I could bump two of my 1TB seagates out of the nas into those enclosures that would give me 5TB in the NAS and a total of 4TB for backup. Very tempting with these drives on sale at Bestbuy today.steve

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4758/seag ... hdd-reviewhttp://www.anandtech.com/show/4738/seag ... ternal-hddhttp://www.anandtech.com/show/5042/seag ... 001-reviewthe bottom of the case comes off and is simply a sata+power connector, I tried a different drive and it still seems to work, so I would assume you could put older drives into the case and use the dock for backups.

Nice! Good to know that from initial testing 4TB drives appear to work fine.I think I will still wait for a bare 4TB drive to be released and then see what the price of that is like.Needless to say that pulling a drive from the GoFlex voids the warranty on the drive and as the disk is not on the official compatibility list if you run into issues NetGear will deny support. So make sure you have good backups of any important data.

Seagate ST4000DX000-1C5160 [3726 GB] 4TB

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TeknoJnky
Hero
Dec 30, 2011
IMO, really the only solution for such large amounts of data is a second nas as a backup and/or to alternate with.

For example, instead of trying to upgrade from 6x 2tb, to 6x 4tb, a second 6bay device with the new 6x 4tb drives would make the most sense.

Since you would need some place to backup ~8tb of data before you could factory reset with the new drives anyway.

If you have 15tb of data and no backup, your priorities are totally out of wack! :shock:
cubewebsolution
Aspirant
Dec 30, 2011
Is that always going to be the way? If you had 15GB or so on the NAS, where on earth would you would that if you did a factory default?
bbaraniec
Luminary
Dec 30, 2011
Factory default will wipe everything, settings, data, you just start fresh new.
cubewebsolution
Aspirant
Dec 30, 2011
I think with 6 x 4TB drives in there would give me quite a lot of storage for a couple of years.... and it could be a while before 5TB drives are mainstream anyway...?

With regards to doing the factory default thing... say you do that to your system, what happens with all the data on the drives?
TeknoJnky
Hero
Dec 30, 2011
cubewebsolutions wrote:
But if I'm setting up from scratch, then 6 x 4tb would work?

yes.

but, at this point in time, you would not be able to upgrade to 5tb (or higher) without another factory default
bbaraniec
Luminary
Dec 30, 2011
I'm totally agreeing with you TeknoJnky. There is stuff I could loose and there are things I can't loose. The ones that are really important to me are backed up and daily basis. But for example movie collection can be easily downloaded again if needed right? When I started with 6x1TB I was considering dual redundancy but I decided to get more space. So far it was good call, still I'm aware that I'm more vulnerable to disaster then you with dual redundancy.
I'm not considering Nas as a Backup solution but storage.
cubewebsolution
Aspirant
Dec 30, 2011
But if I'm setting up from scratch, then 6 x 4tb would work?
TeknoJnky
Hero
Dec 30, 2011
for example, if you have 6x 2tb drives in single redundancy this would get you about 9.2 tb

if you wanted to upgrade to 6x 4tb single redundancy (replace disk, wait for resync, repeat), then this would total about 18.6 tb

unfortunately, you would have to backup existing data and factory with all six 4tb drives due to being greater than 16tb.
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Dec 30, 2011
If you want to expand a volume of say 12TB beyond 16TB that's not possible at this time. A factory default wiping everything is necessary to set it up.
cubewebsolution
Aspirant
Dec 30, 2011
I'm a newbie here, and only about to buy a ReadyNAS Pro http://bit.ly/sr8Una, but not sure what you mean by "Second you can't go beyond 16TB without factory default". Why wouldn't you be using factory default?

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