Can hard drives larger than 1TB be added, such as a 4TB Western Digital Red? Will the PERC card support them?
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The PERC 6i RAID controller supports hard drives up to 2TB. You can replace the PERC 6i controller with an H700 to obtain support for 3TB hard drives, however, Windows server 2012 does not support partitions larger than 2TB unless the BIOS has UEFI support. The Dell Poweredge 2950 servers do not have UEFI support so you are still left with the maximum 2TB partition size. We know you have many choices for Dell Poweredge Servers. The Certified Servers team appreciates your consideration.
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The PERC 6i RAID controller supports hard drives up to 2TB. You can replace the PERC 6i controller with an H700 to obtain support for 3TB hard drives, however, Windows server 2012 does not support partitions larger than 2TB unless the BIOS has UEFI support. The Dell Poweredge 2950 servers do not have UEFI support so you are still left with the maximum 2TB partition size.We know you have many choices for Dell Poweredge Servers. The Certified Servers team appreciates your consideration.
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The Perc6I will not support larger than a 2TB HDD. In order to use a 4TB you would need to upgrade to a H700 controller.
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I currently have a 3TB Western Digital SATA drive installed. So yes it will support over 2TB. I cannot confirm about 4TB support however.
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I have 2 (two) 8TB Seagate 3.5" hard drive in it and both works flawlessly, writing at the same time using a single eSATA interface. So with 4TB only 50% of my capacity per drive, it will support. In fact, I don't think it's the box's job to claim what it supports, it's just a marketing ploy and as you can see it's outdated. 6TB and 8TB drives are out now and they work.
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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 Synology website says that 6TB drives are supported. Check the drive that you are planning on getting with their list to be sure.
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I've had the best luck in any NAS or NAS-type device (home-built PC utilized as a NAS) with the WD-Red drives. Any other 2-4TB drives I've tried have failed within the first 12 months of use. If this is going to be a 7x24 device, then I highly recommend spending the little bit extra for the Red series - they have better vibration isolation for multiple drive installations and always-on access. Drive failures were drastically reduced once I switched over to Red drives - this is across three different NAS devices, different vendors (Thecus, WD, and home-built).
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Yes. I have Four 4TB drives in mine and hey all work fine. Drives must be partitioned as GPT (which is nothing unusual) in order to see all the available space.
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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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According to the description of the product, HDD capacity supports up to 3TB in GPT format. My hard drives do not exceed 3TB, so I don't really know whether it would work with a 4TB hard drive.
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I am about to install a 6TB drive so I will let you know if I am successful but according to intel, it should be fine. The support of your HDD depends on the RAID card. This is a RAID expander and is only meant to extend an existing RAID controllers capacity of HDDs. This does not create a RAID array. UPDATE: I have installed my 6TB WD Red HDD and have no issues. Simply plugged it in, turned on my server, and it showed up in my OS (Linux Mint 17.1) without any issues. No configuration needed. Just plug and play.
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Yeah, most likely. I've used a variety of drives since I've owned it, some listed as "supported" and others not. All have worked fine. The only thing I'd recommend doing is checking the Synology Raid Calc to make sure you get it set up with the specific RAID you want to maximize space: https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/RAID_calculator
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Yes. I have 2 1TB Western digital black caviar hard drives on mine and it handles them just fine
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As per the website, 2x3 tb can be use. So your 4tb don't look to be compatible.
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This unit does not come with hard drives. They have 2 slots that will accept up to 4TB each. I highly recommend getting the Western Digital RED drives since they are made specifically for NAS to run 24/7.
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Yes, you can put up to 3 units of WD Red 3TB NAS Hard Drives in the Lenovo ThinkServer TS140, in a RAID configuration.
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I have used it with a 4TB nas drive (ST4000VN000). So, I know it should go all the way up to 4 TB.
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I am using the WD 4TB green (lower power than red) and it works fine.WD40EZRX Western Digital 4TB Internal Hard Drive IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb