RN104 support 6tb drive

[pdasterly]

I have a rn104 with 2 2tb drives. Can I add 2 more 6tb drives(red nas)?
Using JBOD

[vandermerwe]

6 tb drives are not on the hard disk compatibility list for the 104 so Netgear will deny support if you develop a problem.

There is every indication that they would work though.

Note that the 104 has a volume size limitation of 16 tb. This would not affect you as you are using jbod, however you would probably just reach 16 tb if using Xraid or raid 5.

You have the data on you jbod volumes backed up somewhere I hope.

Why firmware are you running?

[pdasterly]

I know the limit is 16tb, thats why I want to add two 6tb to my two 2 tb drives.
running 6.1.9, device keeps asking to upgrade to 6.2.0 i think

[vandermerwe]

The limit is a volume size limit, not total disk capacity.
If you are running jbod, each disk is a volume, so even with 6 tb drives you would be able to use 4 in the nas.

[pdasterly]

ok thanks

[RN104Owner]

vandermerwe wrote:
The limit is a volume size limit, not total disk capacity...

So if you installed 4 - 10TB drives, 27.24TB formatted in raid 5, you should be able to split it into two volumes of 13.62TB each?

[StephenB]

RN104Owner wrote:
So if you installed 4 - 10TB drives, 27.24TB formatted in raid 5, you should be able to split it into two volumes of 13.62TB each?

No.

The NAS supports 1 volume per RAID array. So with 4x10TB and a 16 TiB volume size limit your choices would be:
Jbod => 4 volumes of ~10 TB (9.09 TiB) or about 36 TiB total space
Dual Raid-1 => 2 volumes of ~10 TB, or about 18 TiB total space
RAID-1 + Jbod-> 3 volumes of ~10 TB (one with redundancy) with about 27 TiB total space.