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APcMini
Mar 29, 2012Aspirant
ReadyNAS Pro: Volume size of more than 13,6TB not possible?
Hi! I know it's not supported officially, but I bought four Hitachi 4TB 7K400 (HDS724040ALE640) and put them into my ReadyNAS Pro Business. I also got two WD 3TB (WD30EZRX) drives in this NAS. Afte...
evan2
Mar 30, 2012NETGEAR Expert
No, it don't need same capacity drives, you do factory default with 4 TB x 4 and 3 TB x2, it will build 3TB capacity with RAID5 on each drives, you see disk 6 is on rebuild, that is right, it is building RAID 5, system will tell you "Found space that can be used to expand capacity, expansion process will start during next boot' after RAID sync on each HDD''s 3TB capacity, then reboot system, system will do vertical expansion for the rest of 1TB capacity on 4TB HDD.
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