3TB drive not recognised as such

[Panzerbjørn]

I have just bought a brand new NV+ and installed two 3TB drive, but only 742GB are recognised from them.

I saw another chap had a similar problem (http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=62052), but there didn't seem to be a solution for him.

This is a brand new device with brand new disks. I have already done one full factory reset, and the drives are still not recognised as 3TB drives. Is there a way of forcing my NV+ to format the drives with GPT instead of MBR? It seems rather counter-productive if I have to format the drive with GPT in windows before it will work in my nas box.

Cheers,
Lars

[StephenB]

If you are running 4.1.x firmware you have a V1, if you are running 5.x.x. firmware then you have a V2.

If this is an NV+ V1, then it simply doesn't support 3 TB drives; there is no workaround.

[mdgm]

You almost certainly have the v1 (silver chassis) which as mentioned does not support 3TB disks (see Limitation #2 on http://www.readynas.com/RAIDiator_4_1_8_Notes). The v2 (charcoal chassis) would not run into this problem.

I would suggest if possible you return the NV+ (v1) and either get the NV+ v2 or get a ReadyNAS Ultra 4. The v2 and the Ultra 4 both support 3TB drives.

The NV+ (v1) is no longer in production and is disappearing off the shelves.