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ATA-8 - SATA600 - ST32000641AS

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:38 pm
by charlyd
Hi my disk are ATA8 or SATA600 will it be supported in the future firmware or is it hardware update of the internal controller. my 859 pro is just 3 month old ;-)

Re: ATA-8 - SATA600 - ST32000641AS

Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:21 am
by Don
It has to do with the hardware. The controller on all QNAP nas devices, except for the newest models announced at CBIT, will not support stata 600.

Re: ATA-8 - SATA600 - ST32000641AS

Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:09 am
by sl1000
so? it wil just fall back to sata-300 on the current models. No problem at all imho as these drives aren't quick enough anyway to use the wide bandwith sata-600 has to offer.
Therefor the question would be: are these drives going to work with the current QNAP models, and my guess would be yes :)

Re: ATA-8 - SATA600 - ST32000641AS

Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:20 am
by P3R
As far as I can see they are on the compatibility list for TS-859 Pro without any notes so I'd expect them to work regardless of Qnap firmware version.

Of course they will fall back to SATA 3 Gbit/s as the TS-859 Pro hardware doesn't support SATA 6 Gbit/s. But as sl1000 points out, that shouldn't affect overall performance that much since SATA 3 Gbit/s usually isn't a bottleneck with mechanical disks. Only when reading from the onboard disk cache I expect SATA 6 Gbit/s to be beneficial.

Re: ATA-8 - SATA600 - ST32000641AS

Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:56 pm
by charlyd
yes yes you are right it works super, ST32000641AS (7x). i was just wondering and yes i thoung the answer would be hardware of course but not asked is not sure..;-)

i was playing arround with the jumbo frame option to set it to 9000 anyone experience with that . first i did that i lost my CONFIG totally so now i am a but carefully and what to know exact what to do and what NOT. my adpaters on the other site are INTEL Dual ports server adapater and yes they support jumbo frames. but as of for my switch it supports jumbo frames??

this is my switch:

SRW2016 16-Port 10/100/1000
Gigabit Switch

Re: ATA-8 - SATA600 - ST32000641AS

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 1:12 am
by P3R
I'm sorry if I sounded patronizing, I'm not native in english and sometimes things come out wrong. There's absolutely no harm in asking, that's the way to learn!

According to the data sheet your switch does support jumbo frames. Possibly it needs to be enabled in the configuration interface? At least with my switches (different brand) that's necessary.