Support for new 4Tb drives

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Re: Support for new 4Tb drives

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sl1000 wrote:Why would you think that QNAP wouldn't already be working on 4TB drive support?

:-) I hope you are obviously difficult to add until you have some hardware to play with. Actually just hope this pushes the price of 3Tb drives down as 6x4tb's might be a bit overkill, but my 6x 1.5's are about to burst.

Interesting how 'off topic' this thread went.

Also off topic, any plans to move to newer atom processors with lower power but higher performance. Read about some new chips Intel were planning but delayed due to problems with the in-built graphics. If the graphics could be disabled sounded like a possible improvement. Just read the article (linked below) again and it's the drivers for Win7 that are the issue, not the chip.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/22/ceda ... -november/

Obviously thinking of moving to a newer NAS with SATA III support, not that the drives etc.. will be that much quicker, as I assume the bottleneck is not really the interface but reading the platters. However with higher density this should improve things too.
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Re: Support for new 4Tb drives

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so, can we get an update on the support for 4 TB drives ?
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Re: Support for new 4Tb drives

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Can't see why ie. 4 TB drives should not work in the NAS. Please be aware of the 16 TB pre-volume size limit for 32 bit systems - this can be limiting for some NAS models actually on 32 bit OS due to several reasons.
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Re: Support for new 4Tb drives

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As I've said on a another thread, only use these if you have a fast box such as the x79 series, otherwise they will grind the smaller bay units to a halt.
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Re: Support for new 4Tb drives

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I have to be honest

I have a 5 drive unit i need more space on .. its 2x5 at the moment.. i can go 3x5 but if the support is there i would just go 4x5 and not waste time in the migration and upgrade

5x2=8 useable
5x3 = 12 useable
5x4 = 16 useable
So for me 2x the space would be ideal if i could do it.

Hitatchi once again is on the market first.. so .. will it work is the question or DO I NEED you folks to help with a patch :) like when i did the first round of Hitatchi 3tb drives haha.. leave it to me to want to push your units.. but .. i do have 40 of them total

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Re: Support for new 4Tb drives

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more important then support for 4TB hard disks would be support to let the RAID grow to sizes above 16TB :-/ That is clearly something you can reach even with NAS models that have less then 6 bays and more (and even less bays if you count with 4TB hard disks).
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Re: Support for new 4Tb drives

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Any word yet on 4TB support?
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R.J. wrote:Any word yet on 4TB support?
http://www.qnap.com/PressRelease_detail.asp?pr_id=309

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Re: Support for new 4Tb drives

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DO NOT put 4TB in the lower spec Qnaps or any other low spec NAS for that matter, you are asking for a lot of trouble, trust me.

The processors/ram will not cope.

If you need alot of space and want to use 4TBs, stick to the x79 range.
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storageman wrote:DO NOT put 4TB in the lower spec Qnaps or any other low spec NAS for that matter, you are asking for a lot of trouble, trust me.
Why not? When users are aware they try to run what used to be a big datacente in a tiny box, driven by a mobile phone processor, ... things take thier time - and everything works. Of course, from 128 MB DRAM, there can't be a lot of cache. You get what you pay for - for the fun of it: I quickly plugged a 4 GB enclosure to my Galaxy Nexus ... works like a charm. For what are 4 TB storage good for ona mobile phone? I don't know, too.

I agreee: When it comes to a production environment reasonable performance, regaining redundancy after HDD failures in certain time windows, ... there is no way around high-end machines. But this is not direct related to 3 TB or 4 TB spindles in my opinion.

When reading about hte ideas, intentions, and plans using ie a four bay ARM unit "to provide iSCSI storage some virtual machines, to act as a file stroage, to play music, to stream video, and to cook coffee" I'm sometimes concenred, too.

So what exactly are your concerns?
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Re: Support for new 4Tb drives

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sl1000 wrote:Why would you think that QNAP wouldn't already be working on 4TB drive support?
Quote it would be stupid if aren't, since they build product specialized in storage :D
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