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XrayDoc88

Guide

Mar 08, 2022

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Is There A Maximum HDD Size For The RN628X?

The online Netgear list only goes up to 16TB drives. Has anyone tried using an 18TB or 20TB drive yet?

StephenB
Mar 08, 2022
XrayDoc88 wrote:

The online Netgear list only goes up to 16TB drives.

Actually there is one 18 TB drive on the list. Though they are slow at testing, and any non-SMR NAS-purposed or Enterprise class disk should work.

There is post from last November from Hawk321 who reported using two different 18 TB models in an RN104: https://community.netgear.com/t5/New-ReadyNAS-Users-General/RN104-18-TB-HDDs/m-p/2159036

There was also post a couple weeks ago from SamirD who reported successfully installing an 18 TB WDC disk in their Ultra (running 4.2.28). Though he was only using 12 TB of the capacity (he mirrored a 12 TB drive).

XrayDoc88

Guide

Mar 08, 2022

Thanks everyone. I appreciate the reassurance that 18 TB should work. I have ordered a Seagate Ironwolf Pro 18TB. Didn't know about the Toshiba, or I might have gone that route.

Hawk321

Apprentice

Mar 09, 2022

The new Toshiba 18 TB MG09 is the first HDD with the MAMR technology, faster and less power consuming and has some other advantages as well comparing to other 18 TB drives.

https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/eu/storage/product/data-center-enterprise/cloud-scale-capacity/articles/mg09-series.html

https://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/artikel/hardware/storage/56543-toshiba-mg09-18-tb-im-test-die-erste-mamr-festplatte.amp.html

SamirD
Prodigy
Mar 09, 2022
Pretty cool. I had no idea why it was taking so long to break the 16TB mark, and now I know why. But going down this rabbit hole of research, it seems iron-platinum with copper substrates could increase areal densities quite a bit, pushing drives so sizes multiple times what they are today.

And then the big question will be, can the RN628X take an 80TB drive. :o It will be unreal to have nearly 1/2 a PB in my Ultra 6 via 6x 80TB drives. :D
- Sandshark
  Sensei - Experienced User
  Mar 10, 2022
  The Linux file systems can certainly accomodate that. Whether or not there is anything in the ReadyNAS GUI or support executables that has a limitation is unknown, as Netgear has not said.
  - SamirD
    Prodigy
    Mar 10, 2022
    Yep, and as long as some of us have some of these units still running, we'll find out as we upgrade. :)