Hi all.
It's been my experience external hard drive enclosures are very picky about which drives go in. If the box says "Up to 1TB" tha means 2 TB drives are not recognized or all data will be lost in a few days.
I also notice I can throw any hard-drive in my PC and it just works. For huge drives, I just use GPT and all works well - even on old SATA I, 64bit XP PCs.
So what about NAS? Are they also picky about drives? Or ANY SATA drive can be read by ANY SATA controller?
Asking this because when I get a NAS soon. Then I will want to update 2TB drives with HAMR 5-6TB drives when they are relased - without needing to buy a whole new NAS (Just limited to the SATA II speeds).
This link is related, but not about NAS.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/246170-32-hard-drive-size-limit
Ok thanks!
It's been my experience external hard drive enclosures are very picky about which drives go in. If the box says "Up to 1TB" tha means 2 TB drives are not recognized or all data will be lost in a few days.
I also notice I can throw any hard-drive in my PC and it just works. For huge drives, I just use GPT and all works well - even on old SATA I, 64bit XP PCs.
So what about NAS? Are they also picky about drives? Or ANY SATA drive can be read by ANY SATA controller?
Asking this because when I get a NAS soon. Then I will want to update 2TB drives with HAMR 5-6TB drives when they are relased - without needing to buy a whole new NAS (Just limited to the SATA II speeds).
This link is related, but not about NAS.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/246170-32-hard-drive-size-limit
Ok thanks!