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rekop
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Mar 11, 2012

NETGEAR READYNAS ULTRA 4 with WD30EZRX

Hi

Will the Readynas ultra 4 be compatible with the HDD Western Digital Caviar Green WD30EZRX.
WD30EZRX is really affordable compared to Western Digital Caviar Green WD30EZRS.

Any "to be listed" yet?

Other HDD´s in the 3TB category cost to much at the moment.

Other NAS is really not an option.
Choose a NAS is today really hard.

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  • Wondering about the same.

    My guess is it is supported;
    They are somewhere sold together;
    http://www.pclan.com.au/ctg-servers/ctg-nas-server/netgear-readynas-ultra-4-12tb-4x-wd-3tb-green-wd30ezrx-nas-network-storage-4-bay-rndu4000-p-n-rndu4000-4x-wd30ezrx.html
  • Since these drives are not on the supported list, Netgear will not provide support for them. This doesn't mean they wont work. It just means Netgear may ask you to remove them from your ReadyNAS if they think they are the cause of a problem. From the link j0ker provided it looks like there is at least one company confident that they do work. I would be very cautious anytime you are looking at getting drives not on the supported list especially green drives which don't tend to handle the stress of a raid well.
  • We have this model in-house. So far it has only been qualified on the NV+/Duo v2 models. The Ultra/Pro series is next for testing, but I can't give an ETA.
  • I use one EZRX in my Ultra4, works like a charm, but it gets Load Cycle Count like crazy (got 180000 LCC in 6 months, around 1 per minute). Since then, i have tweaked the WD idle head parking (default at 8s inactivity) at 254s, so far so good (but tweaking isn't really business friendly).

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