Anyone has tested this unit with 6 TB hard drives?
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Yes, I have one built with 4x6TB WD RED drives in an 18TB RAID-5 volume. I was able to format it with GPT, NTFS. I tested copying files, and I ran a chkdsk /r to test the free space. Everything looks good so far. I am going to be using it soon to fill with data.
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I am running 4 X 2tb hard drives in a "mirror" config. That only gives me 4tb of actual storage space but the hot swap feature was what I wanted.
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I run 7 powered Seagate 3tb drives and it work fine. each drive has it own power transformer. I also, at times, run 4 power Seagate drives and 3 non-powered portable drives. it work fine.
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I do not know. All that I've learned is that the drives and their external cases are very chipset-sensitive. Probably the case with the electronics is the more important factor. I'd try it, but return it if it won't work.
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Yes, but the unit is advertised at 5gb/sec. You won't even see that in the real world. I am very satisfied with mine. I use it mostly for backups and it is plenty quick with my Seagate 1tb 6gb/s drive. You should use it with a USB 3.O port for best performance. Also, If you look at the device properties you should set it set for 'Quick Removal' not 'Better performance' so you can 'hot plug/unplug' it w/o worry of data corruption. I have run CrystalDiskMark benchmark tool and the best I get is approx. 90mb/sec on sequential reads/writes. You may get better results. USB will always have some amount of 'system overhead' so you will generally get much better performance w/a dedicated(on board) SATA III controller as on your motherboard. BTW, I also watch HD movies on my unit with no issues. Hope this helps.
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Current firmware supports 5 and 6tb drives.http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud-EX2/New-Release-WD-My-Cloud-EX2-Firmware-Version-1-04-04-7-23-2014/td-p/769457
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I am really sure but, you would probably lose 3-4 GB of data because of manufacture formatting, I would suggest go with 2TB.
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Yes I have used it with a 3TB Hard drive and works fine but had to format the hard drive to be FAT32 but this seemed to be more of a problem with the particular hard drive I was using rather than the media player.
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I am using it with a 3.0Gb drive with a NTFS file system. Works like a charm
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Well, all 4 of ours work pretty well, albeit they are not stunningly fast. I did notice the performance really slows down after the first couple TB of small files. But I suspect that's due to Samba, and I wish I could get into the unit, O/S wise, to tune it
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sure be ok. it is ok when i use the 1Tb. but it is better that you check with the Seagate service team
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I just finished installing this 1TB and it worked like a charm... 828GB free out of 931GB. I'll update this if any thing changes...
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It did not work with my 4TB external hard drive. Wondering if it worked for you ?
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Not sure why there would be a size limitation. I am using 1.5 to 3Tb SATA drives with no problems
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As to specifically handling a 3TB drive, I can not state, although the unit will handle a combined total of 16TB, I have a 2.5 TB drive in my unit and it works very well
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Graham, In my experience, I have good luck with the Seagate drives in that model. Their reliability seems to be fairly good, in my estimation.
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This is a question that changes with time. As of the date I write this, the Mobius has been tested to 6TB/bay, and I am successfully using a 6TB drive myself. They say they are preparing to test 8TB drives, but until tested they won't say for sure that it will support it. Interestingly, the SATA standard actually supports 48-bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA), which allows for disks up to 144 PETAbytes (144,000 TB!) in size. So, as long as each manufacturer holds to that standard, you should effectively be able to put ANY size drive in the enclosure far into the future. However, only 6TB/bay has been tested as of the date I write this.
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Yes, I'm running the 8tb version and it has the full 8tb, but for some reason I think the device used the first drive closes to the power button first for storage in this setup, but yes it works!