NVX Business Edition total Max HDD Capacity?

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avpman1 wrote:

StephenB wrote:

The NVX will handle 4 TB drives. It will not expand volumes more than 16 TiB. And there is a growth limit of 8 TiB over the life of the volume. So to answer your question we need to know the disk configuration you used at your original install (or last factory reset). If you can't expand you current volume, you'll need to do a factory reset with the new drives in place. Given the 16 TiB limit, you might consider switching to flexraid, as it would give you more expansion options later on (as the 5 and 6 TB drives come onto the market).

Sometimes I can't even remember what I had for breakfast! It's probably been expanded three of four times. Likely started with 330 maybe 350 drives, then went to 500's or 750's then 1TB and lastly 2TB. Not so sure about the earlier ones but the last three 750/1TB/2TB I'm pretty sure about. I don't mind starting from scratch if I have to. But right now I'm almost out of space 6TB of storage. That's gonna take a loooooong time to restore over a USB 2.0 port. I'm currently backing up about 4TB of the total data.

If you download the logs, you can trace the expansion history (tedious but possible).  The net is that expansion will fail if you exceed the growth limit and if that occurs you will be forced to do a reset.

It will be faster to restore over a gigabit ethernet connection btw.

I've not paid much attention to the boards in a while. Will have to check on Flexraid. I'm assuming my current hw and firmware supports it? Oh - btw - any suggestions on 3 or 4TB drives. I'm generally partial to Seagate, WD and Hitachi in that order. The "official" Netgear compatibility chart tops compatible drives out at 3TB for my NVX.

I am partial to WD myself.  The Seagate VN drive line or the WD Red (or even Red Pro) should all work.  Getting support if you stray from the HCL might be a future problem, but honestly Netgear's refusal to update the HCL on the older NAS  leaves you little choice.