What's the exact recognized size in a 3TB drive?

[rodenas]

Hi all,

I've got a DuoV1 and I'm planning an upgrade to a DuoV2 in the future. But I'd like to change first a failing 2TB disk. If a buy a 3TB disk and use it in the DuoV1, will it be recognized as a 2TB drive or less than a 1TB as some people suggest?

TIA, greetings.

[StephenB]

The V1 doesn't support 3 TB drives. I think you get about 766 GB available space if you try to use one.

[PapaBear]

The problem is that any disk over 2TB requires a formatting technique (GPID) that the sparc based units cannot support. They are limited to the older MBR method.

[rodenas]

OK, thanks. Do you know if there is a way to set the drive into a kind of compatibility mode? (like it used to be with the 32GB or 128GB limits, if I remember well, and configurable by a jumper in the hard drive). Or use the aforementioned MBR method instead of GPID.

Thanks again.

[StephenB]

I don't know of any workaround that works with the NAS.

[PapaBear]

Some of the earliest 3TB drives came with a PC card that had a controller to which you could attach the drive and after loading drives, the drive could be used as a secondary (not boot) drive in a PC that did not support GPID, but I haven't seen them listed in a long time.

[StephenB]

Some of the earliest 3TB drives came with a PC card that had a controller to which you could attach the drive and after loading drives, the drive could be used as a secondary (not boot) drive in a PC that did not support GPID, but I haven't seen them listed in a long time.

That wouldn't work in the NAS of course.

[PapaBear]

Of course not, but the 3TB drive won't work in older PC's either.