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What is the maximum size of disks he understands
Hello, tell me please what is the maximum size of the disks he understands?
Here https://kb.netgear.com/20641/ReadyNAS-Hard-Disk-Compatibility-List when selecting NAS214 there are disks on 10TB and 12TB that it allegedly supports, but will it support them? will he see disks of this size?
Since the documentation (manual) to it says that it is designed for 40TB, and on many sites it is written that the size of one disk, which he understands 8TB.
I'm just afraid that I will buy disks at 10TB, and the system will not see them, and they will not be able to be returned and they are not cheap.
And also will see his Samsung Smart TV, whether I can come from the TV on it as an external hard disk and watch movies from it.
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The datasheets are written for the original release of the product and may/may not be updated afterwards. Even if they are updated many resellers don't bother to update their pages with the new information.
The 10TB and 12TB disks were released well after the RN214. If disks are on the compatibility list then it means that we've verified compatibility with using them with the current firmware at the time they were added to the list.
Sometimes new disks may result in us needing to do firmware updates to address compatibility issues.
Some high capacity disks may not fit in using the toolless sled. So you may need to remove that and use the drive tray screws to secure the disk.
And then tell me more, you have on the product page ReadyNAS 214
it is written that it supports 40TB, is it old information or is it new?
If I insert 4 hard drives of 12 TB, can I make a RAID of 48TB or it does not understand such a volume? Or new firmware have increased the size from 40TB to 48TB?
LionNick wrote:
And then tell me more, you have on the product page ReadyNAS 214
it is written that it supports 40TB, is it old information or is it new?
If I insert 4 hard drives of 12 TB, can I make a RAID of 48TB or it does not understand such a volume? Or new firmware have increased the size from 40TB to 48TB?The OS-6 firmware has no known limits on drive size. BTRFS has a max filesystem size of 16 exibytes (which is over 18 million TB.).
As mdgm-ntgr has already said, Netgear just uses the max disk size on the HCL whenever they publish capacity and disk info for OS-6 ReadyNAS. That applies to both datasheets and the netgear product pages. At the moment, disk sizes are increasing fairly often, so this information gets quickly outdated.
Your system will accept 12 TB drives, and a 4x12TB XRAID array will give you a volume size of 36 TB (reported as ~32.7 TiB in the Web UI). The volume size for XRAID single redundancy is "sum the disks and subtract the largest".
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