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What is the largest hard drive I can put in a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer Edition?
What is the largest hard drive I can put in a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer Edition? I think it uses XRAID 2( not 1). I did a superficial search and I think I saw something about a 16GB volum...
You mean 16TB not 16GB.
You can do a factory reset with equal capacity disks in place and get a larger volume.
You can also have multiple volumes each under 16TB.
OS6 doesn't have the expansion limits. So you could consider running that though doing so is not supported.
Yes, I mean 16TB not GB.
Is this a real limit or does this not apply if you are formatting it from scratch with equal drives? I want to have 1 big volume if possible.
So let's say I have 6 X 4TB hard drives in RAID 5 configuration. Will I end up with something around 20TB?
miogpsrocks wrote:
Yes, I mean 16TB not GB.
Is this a real limit or does this not apply if you are formatting it from scratch with equal drives? I want to have 1 big volume if possible.
So let's say I have 6 X 4TB hard drives in RAID 5 configuration. Will I end up with something around 20TB?
It doesn't apply when creating a volume with equal capacity disks. It only affects expansion. Note OS6 is not affected by the expansion limit, so if you'd like to expand the volume in the future then that may be worth considering even though not supported.
Yes you'd get a volume that's about 18TiB. 20 * 1000^4 / 1024^4 = 18.2 (note this calculations ignores overheads, root volume, swap etc.). We use base 2 whereas disk manufacturers use base 10. So we may get a smaller number but it's still the same amount of space.
Users have used much higher capacity disks than 4TB ones.
How much larger HD have people put in this system?
Like 8TB drives?
Thanks.
miogpsrocks wrote:
How much larger HD have people put in this system?
As far as I can see from posts here, almost all users going above 4 TB drives are choosing to switch to OS 6. The expansion limitations of the OS 4.2 XRAID implementation are too limiting when you have large drives.
With OS6 running on the Pro, several posters have used 8 TB drives. I don't recall 10 TB off hand, but there's no technical reason it wouldn't work.
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