3TB Drives

[Robertus]

Will the 1010 support 3TB drives on release?

[docchris]

I would suspect that the answer is - in theory yes, but you would be best to wait for them to be qualified for use in case there are any unusual issues with any specific manufacturers drives

[docchris]

they're released.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/19 ... iar_green/

hopefully Syno will have an official line soon

[maxxfi]

Wow, they even seem to have a 2.5" version of the 3TB.
That makes for quite an impressive capacity/volume ratio

[docchris]

where does it say that???

[maxxfi]

Oops, I misread a sentence. Sorry

[synologyorqnap]

I saw on storagereview's review that it worked on a 411+

Still an official answer would be good to know the 1010+ we got 2 months aren't forever limited to 2TB drives.

[lurik]

the page of storagereview

http://www.storagereview.com/western_di ... d30ezrsdtl

[GladLock96]

Now, I know the 3TB Western Digital Caviar Green WD30EZRSDTL isn't on the supported list but my question is even though it's not offically supported, will the drive actually work inside say a DS1010+?

The reason being is because I know most normal MBR partitions (32 bit OSes and traditional BIOS) only support 2.19TB maximum so I want to see if the Synology DS1010+ will remain true to this theory or if it will register as more than 2^32 logical blocks.

[kuikenek]

Would also like to know the answer. Am holding off getting a 1010+ untill I know for sure it will work with the WD 3TB Caviar Green.

[synologyorqnap]

I like to know how this is going to work too.

Especially on some existing multi drive with raid redundancy configuration and u want to vertically expand with all 3tb drives as in this link

http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.ph ... rger_disks

[docchris]

what do you mean by "how this is going to work", surely the steps are:

1) wait for the drives to be supported
2) upgrade the drives as normal and as you would do with any other drive

?

[synologyorqnap]

But this isn't as simple as before the drives always used MBR but 3TB drives needs GPT.

The OS is stored on disc. wiki page say linux doesn't need EFI to be able to boot from GPT. So that part should be ok.

And this is assuming you've created a volume from DSM3.0 so it uses EXT4 as thats also needed for 3TB drives. No go for those with DS108j, DS109j and 7-series and older

[docchris]

I'd refer to MBR/GPT/Booting as all coming under my heading :

1) wait for them to be supported

[Synful]

I'm new to Synology, considering purchasing a DS410, and read the WD30EZRSDTL storagereview review and reference to the DS411. Do they share the same chipset and system software? Although I won't need to upgrade drives for at least a year, I'd like to know there was a future upgrade path. I understand that the ultimate confirmation is the HCL. Also, besides CPU speed and memory, resulting in faster read/write performance, are there any other differences between the two NASes? Thx.