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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 ...
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 At the moment, disk sizes are increasing fairly often, so this information gets quickly outdated.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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