Well based on Tested hardware and operating system list the largest tested drive is 1TB. You'll need Firmware 1.4 to support total storage spage greater than 2TB. See http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/ss4000-e/sb/CS-026274.htm.
Hi Edward.
Tanks for your comment. The NAS server firmware is fs-bc-1.4-b-710. So i can put discs in it of 1 TB or higher ? Is this correct ?
thanks.
Walter
Ideally Yes you can use disks larger than 1TB, but it's highly recommended to use tested hard drives.
Hi Walter, were you successful putting 'larger than 1TB' drives into your SS4000E? if so, what were you able to accomplish? thanks, Roger
Hi Roger
No I didn't try lager than 1 TB disks I put 4 disks of 1 TB into the storage and it works
regards
Walter
I just put in 2-2TB drives (1 seagate and 1 hitachi) into slots 1+2. Initialized them as raid 0 and he saw something like 3981GB available space. I made public 2000GB (the max) and made home 1725-ish. After he restarted, I made the remaining space as a new shared folder of 257GB called public_257. I'm going to order 2 more 2TB drives and then rebuild as raid5. summary: I would say that the 2TB limit we read about in the documentation means the shared volumes are capped at 2TB and doesn't apply to total disk space of the raid. I sure wish I had a couple 3TB drives to try before ordering the extra drives.
Just want to say i have just upgraded my server bu putting 4 x 2TB drives in and it works like a dream
Did anyone try 3 Tb Harddisks yet?
I've got a Seagate Barracuda XT 3 Tb, will it work with the SS4000E?
Which file system should I use?
Thanks in advance.
Haven't tried myself, but not likely. Best scenario is the system only sees the first 2TB of the drive.
