Hello, I'm trying to find information about the possibility to use 3TB hdd with the NV+ NAS device. In detail if the hdd Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001 3 TB it's compatible.
Thank you so much for any reply :wink: Regards Max
Why does the NV+ not support drives over 2TB? I was really hoping eventually a firmware update would keep letting me add bigger and bigger drive to this NAS. I need nothing else out of my NAS at this time other than more space.
Well that's a shame really, I see no reason to have to keep buying new hardware to just add software support for bigger hard drives, this is a good reason to just build a Linux box in a raid configuration myself if you can not just add simple larger hard drive support to help out your customers. Remind me not to buy Netgear products again.
It's possible the hardware may not be compatible with GPT (Sparc models were first released in 2004), 3rd party Linux development for the platform stopped a long time before GPT was needed. There are a number of factors.
Any of the models on other hardware platforms support 3TB drives. For example the now discontinued NVX/Ultra/Ultra Plus/Pro originally used MBR but 4.2.16+ converts the MBR partitions to GPT.
I have ReadyNas NV+. First I bought Seagate Baracuda 4TB disc and end up with only 1.6TB size for Volume C. Then I read X-RAID nice features and bought another Seagte 4TB disc. I added it and wait that they "synhronize". And also this end up with only 1.6TB size for Volum C. I have inside 8TB, and only 1.6 TB is available. Is this a joke ? I shutdown and reboot the NAS several times and situation did not change. Then I install addon called forced expansion and what was written in the log "Successfully enabled forced expansion. The next attempted expansion or the next reboot will reflect this change." Of course I did reboot and hoped for the best, but again only 1.6TB available. :rofl: Of course I don't have any idea what is meant by "next attempted expansion" since in the web interface there is no option to access this process (e.g. to start/stop, monitor), so I assume that it should start during reboot. And further, with all this raidar and web nonsense interfaces there is no way to check or see if something is actually going on regarding running forced expansion. I can wait if the process takes time, but I have to see if the process is performing at all ... and when approx. it will end. I am slowly tired of this NAS, will simply take out this 8TB discs and used them in PC that I will change into NAS ... does anybody have some advice or idea what is wrong and what I should do ?? before throwing away this NAS ??
Is this a NV+ (v1 - silver chassis, runs RAIDiator 4.1.x or earlier)? The NV+ v1 can only handle drives with capacity up to 2TB. Adding a second drive would add redundancy not lead to expansion. When a third drive is added the volume would expand.
The NV+ (v1) hardware is an evolutionary improvement over a product released in February 2006.
NetGear RND4000-100EUS / http://countriesse.netgear.com/Products/Storage/StorageWorkandPlay/RND4000.aspx?detail=Specifications. I don't think this could be a problem,since the manufacturer doesn't talk anything about disc capacity limitations, and that they are capable upto 16 TB.
Then it is time so sue the Netgear since they are selling something and saying how you can increase capacity with no problems, and when you buy this, i get info on the forum, that it can't handle even small disc like 2 TB ...
If its a actual hardware limitation that's one thing, but if they refuse to just to add the ability to recognize bigger hard drives to new firmware releases that pretty sad. Many of my PC's have had the issue where its a simple Bios update that adds the ability for the system to just see the new sized drives. I will not buy a new NAS simply because they refuse to add support for bigger drives to a NAS that works fine right now its just needs more space.
The NV was first released by Infrant. I know, I bought one in 2006. And it wasn't a new model then. You are complaining that a nearly 10 year old system will not use the latest and greatest hard drives...
Really???
And we should sue Netgear because they didn't know that 3TB hard drives would be incompatible. Heck, 1TB hard drives were not available when this unit was released.
I think it's actually a testament that you can upgrade it to 2TB. Kudos to ReadyNAS.
