I have 3x WD Red 4TB, each. Can I utilize all of the 4TB space? If so what should I do? I don't want to do Dynamic.
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Hi, I have 2 x 3TB WD Red HDD running with Win 7 OS. These are running quiet well. If you need to know more they give 2 email addresses, support@iocrest.com and support@sybausa.com. Hope this helps you. I will depend on your OS system. With 32bit systems you can only get 2.3GB on each physical drive. Web www.syba.com or www.iocrest.com. See how you go.
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It depends on your O/S. I used mine with Ubuntu and 4x4TB and it worked fine.
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No, you can't use all the space. Due to 32 bit limitations, you can only at up a 2.3GB array, which unfortunately makes this card ask but useless for large storage.
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I have 2 4tb WD Red Drives and 2 3tb WD Red Drives, and running on 256 SSD.
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I have a variety installed - mainly used for storage of movies/music and vmware. If you want reliability, stick with the reds. I went for cost - so have WD, Seagate and Hitachi. Have only had 1 WD give me an issue in 3 years (10 3 Tb drives) - so when the 3 Tb drive failed, I replaced it with a 4 Tb and let the hybrid raid expand..
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Bought mine in Aug 2014, loaded 8 WD Red 4TB drives into without issue, I can't image there being a problem with the 6 TB drives.
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I really do not know, but I would think that it is more a question of wheather your COMPUTER will support such a drive. 3TB is a huge drive, but on the other hand, I remember wondering if I could ever fill a 40MB drive. Please remember to back it up regularly. I'll be able to hear you from here if it crashes and you haven't backed it up!
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The manual doesn't say. I used a 1TB drive and it worked fine. You can add 2 external drives, but no mention of size limit there. You can map it as a network drive, so you can move content back and forth that way, but slower ofc.
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Yes. I currently am using 2 HDD's for total redundancy of my data so 2 4tb drives only provide 4tb of data storage. I am using a 3rd 4tb HDD to automatically backup the data. In the future if I add 2 more 4tb drives I could double the capacity of both the online storage and backup capacity.
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You can start with two drives and expand it as you get more drives. Furthermore if all bays are full then you can replace older smaller drives with bigger newer drives without losing any data.
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I installed an internal 3tb drive with no problems, all 3 tb useable. Firmware Version 1.0.1.52 will support 4tb external, but I'm not sure about internal. I would think it would.
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The WD Red Series are the only drives I put in mine (17 of the 3TB ones). I would strongly suggest the 3TB or 4TB versions of the WD Red NAS drives for this unit and nothing else.
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I haven't yet tried a 4TB drive, but I have used a 3TB drive with NTFS formatting with no problems.
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I don't see why it wouldn't be. BUT I would suggest a 2tb WD Black instead. Windows defaults to an MBR storage format which I KY supports up to 2.2tb. You can't even partition the other 800gb into another drive. You can change the format to GPT which would allow you to use all 3tb, but it's a pain in the butt and if this will be your only storage drive I would steer clear of doing that. Quick summary: A WD Black should work no problem, but I'd personally go with a 2tb version. Hope this helps!
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the largest drive i'm using with this is 2TB, but I see no reason why 4TB shouldn't work, as long as you have 64 bit windows.
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The short answer is no. Synology includes the reds in the supported drives list of this unit, but WD tells you that reds are supported only for up to 5 drives in one box, due to vibration issues. If you want to be safe, you should use WD SE or RE - these are enterprise grade drives with vibration protection technology, and not much more expensive.
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That is the theory of a RAID 5. I had a 4TB drive fail after a month on duty. Western Digital immediately sent me a new one, I plugged it in and it took about four days to re-establish the full RAID. My 16TB with 12 TB usable space on RAID 5 was loaded with 4TB of records. So, if you want to upgrade your system one drive at a time, better be patient.
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ABSOLUTELY. I have been using a pair of 3TB, a pair of 4T and a pair of 1 TB seagates for some time with no problems. I do not use any of their special back-up software. (KIK, Ph.D.)
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Using 5 drives without redundancy is just asking for problems... I would venture to say that one of those drives is going to fail within a year. I have a 2x 2GB RAID1 system for the past 4 years, and had to re-sync them once. In the last 15 years I've had ~5 drives crash or get corrupted. Never again will I leave valuable data in only one drive.