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Ready Nas duo V2 (RND2120) cant find al space on my 3TB discs
I proably made the wrong start with my new disks, when i inserted my new 3TB Hdd in my RND2120 Bekause before the Nas was ready i shut it down. So, now the Nas just find 738 GB of 3TB. I cant find ...
Gram1 wrote:
Värdnamn: nas-83-FE-3B 
Modell: ReadyNAS Duo Serie: 24M30B7700DB2 Fast programvara: RAIDiator 4.1.16 [1.00a043] I have just updated the software for the latest version, so I guess it´s still a V1, do we agree?
Yes. Unfortunately the product labels can be very confusing.
So you can get 2 TB raid-1 or two 2 TB flexraid volumes (Raid-0/jbod) with no redundancy.
Are you sure you have a v2? A v2 runs 5.3.x firmware, a v1 runs 4.1.x firmware.
A v1 can't handle disks over 2 TB.
I have searched the webb and only found info of my Nas with 1 TB HDD. I'm curious about how you know the 2TB HDD limit?Seagate began shipping 3 TB drives in March 2011, the Duo v1 and NV+ v1 products became end-of-life shortly after that in November 2011 when the v2 was introduced. Netgear didn't update the datasheet or manuals, but of course the HCLs only contain disks of 2 TB or smaller.
There are many threads on the forum on this topic, for instance this Nov 2011 post: https://community.netgear.com/t5/New-to-ReadyNAS/Ready-Nas-NV-maximum-drive-sizes/m-p/672915/highlight/true#M969
There were both hardware and software issues that the industry had to address when drives expanded over the 2 TB barrier. In the case of the v1 products, the linux kernel they use never had GPT support added, and Netgear decided it was too difficult to try to back-port. There are some OS 4.2.x products (which do have GPT support) that were limited to 2 TB sizes in some slots - that is a hardware issue.
- Thanks! I'm so grateful that you share your so detailed knowledge to me! :-D
Hi Gram1,
I found the link below that you might also be intrested reading about ReadyNAS expansion limitation:
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