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WD Red Plus drive WD140EFGX compatibility with ReadyNAS 2304 and ReadyNAS 102
Hello, I'm writing here because I have to buy a new drive for my ReadyNAS 2304 and I started to think about the WD Red Plus series. I expecially found a good offer for the WD140EFXGX drive, but I...
The Red Plus series as a whole is compatible - I have several 3 TB, 6 TB, 8 TB, and 10 TB Red Plus in my various ReadyNAS.
Netgear doesn't update the HCL very often. Generally any NAS-purposed CMR SATA drive or Enterprise class SATA drive will work.
emme-n wrote:
I use for other purposes another ReadyNAS too, the older 102 model, could be this WD Red Plus drives series compatible whit this old model too?
The RN102 can handle 14 TB drives, but it is the least capable OS-6 ReadyNAS - with the slowest processor and least memory. The sync time will be very slow. You might consider using jbod instead of RAID-1 - losing RAID protection, but avoiding the slow sync.
The Red Plus series as a whole is compatible - I have several 3 TB, 6 TB, 8 TB, and 10 TB Red Plus in my various ReadyNAS.
Netgear doesn't update the HCL very often. Generally any NAS-purposed CMR SATA drive or Enterprise class SATA drive will work.
emme-n wrote:
I use for other purposes another ReadyNAS too, the older 102 model, could be this WD Red Plus drives series compatible whit this old model too?
The RN102 can handle 14 TB drives, but it is the least capable OS-6 ReadyNAS - with the slowest processor and least memory. The sync time will be very slow. You might consider using jbod instead of RAID-1 - losing RAID protection, but avoiding the slow sync.
Thank you for both answers.
I'll then purchase one of these WD Red Plus drive for my ReadyNAS 2304.
One more thing: in the Netgear website, at the ReadyNAS 2304 presentation page, among the technical details of the device is specified that its maximum capacity is 48 TB; what would happen if I'll insert 4 WD Red Plus WD140EFGX drives (14 TB each)?
Will the space be limited to 48 TB? Will I have (assuming I'll set the JBOD mode) a 56 TB space? Will I experiment any error or what else?
emme-n wrote:
One more thing: in the Netgear website, at the ReadyNAS 2304 presentation page, among the technical details of the device is specified that its maximum capacity is 48 TB
Netgear specs the ReadyNAS capacity using the largest compatible disks at the time of publication, and almost never goes back and revises the specs. So you can ignore that ceiling.
With 4x14TB, you'd get 56 TB (with no RAID redundancy), or 42 TB with a RAID-5 volume.
If you went with 4x18 TB drives, the RR2304 capacity would actually be 72 TB (with no RAID redundancy), or 54 TB with a RAID-5 volume.
Thank you again, your explanation is definitely clear and complete.
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