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Ultra 4 with 4x3Tb drives - ok?
Hello, I have a 2013 ReadyNAS Ultra 4 running RAIDiator 4.2.27.
I didn't read the instructions very well when it said the device can support up to 4x 2 Tb drives.
Being ambitious I installed 4 x 3 Tb drives (WD Red 3TB NAS Hard Drive: 1 to 8-bay RAID Hard Drive: 3.5-inch SATA 6 Gb/s, IntelliPower, 64MB Cache WD30EFRX).
Is this an ok configuration to have 4x 3 TB drives? Am I going to possibly corrupt or lose data? Right now I'm showing in RAIDiator: (Online, X-RAID2, 4 disks, 25% of 8326 GB used). Or should I start to downgrade to a 4x 2TB drive config?
I have a 1 Tb Apple time machine allocation on it.
Thanks!
I didn't read the instructions very well when it said the device can support up to 4x 2 Tb drives.
Being ambitious I installed 4 x 3 Tb drives (WD Red 3TB NAS Hard Drive: 1 to 8-bay RAID Hard Drive: 3.5-inch SATA 6 Gb/s, IntelliPower, 64MB Cache WD30EFRX).
Is this an ok configuration to have 4x 3 TB drives? Am I going to possibly corrupt or lose data? Right now I'm showing in RAIDiator: (Online, X-RAID2, 4 disks, 25% of 8326 GB used). Or should I start to downgrade to a 4x 2TB drive config?
I have a 1 Tb Apple time machine allocation on it.
Thanks!
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- You will be fine with that.
I don't know where you read about a 2 tb drive size limit on the ultra.
The HCL for the legacy units may not reflect what you could actually use. If the unit is out of warranty and you have a backup then I'd use any disks that are listed as compatible with the newer units. Red disks are fine and are on the ultra HCL.
Backup your data. - The WD30EFRX is on the HCL for the ultra 4.
- When the unit first shipped 2TB disks were the max capacity available and the max capacity that would work. 4.2.16 added support for disks larger than 2TB. You are running the latest firmware.
- Ok Awesome! Thank you all for the good news :)
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