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New Ultra 4 RNDU400 and 3TB Drives
Hi, Thanks to the forum members I have finally decided to buy the Ultra 4 RNDU4000 (4-bay). I also purchased 2 3TB drives by Seagate. From the HCL: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001 3 TB ...
PapaBear wrote: And 4.2.16 or later is needed to support 3TB drives.
Hi PapaBear,
mgdm did suggest that it might be a good idea to update the drives' firmware if it is old. But I ran into some issues.
First, I only have my laptop. It has a USB/eSata port which I hope will work for my purpose.
Second, I will need to purchase an external hard drive enclosure. Will I need eSata or will Sata enclosure do? Can I just skip this process and just put one of the 3TB drives into the NAS and do a factory default and then update the NAS's firmware to 4.2.16 which supports 3TB drives?
Other questions comes to mind. Can I update the drive's firmware via RAIDair? Or should I just do the logical thing and buy the enclosure and update the drives' firmware first?
Thanks for any advice.
Cmaker3
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