Can the EX495 with the stock WHS OS handle the new GPT partition for 4tb Internal harddrives?
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It handles 2TB no issues and you can mount as 1 big drive. Suspect if you upgrade to whs2011 it can handle it. I have 2 whs and like them. Pimped them out with more ram and a faster CPU
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I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit but not Ultimate 64. The EX4 16TB works fine with Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit without a glitch.
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Yes. I have Four 4TB drives in mine and hey all work fine. Drives must be partitioned as GPT (which is nothing unusual) in order to see all the available space.
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Dear Sir,This is Millie from ORICO.I am so sorry for the trouble that we had made.this enclosure support 6TB drive.Please contact ORICO Customer Care Center for Firmware update.Kind regards,Millie
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I would never consider a 4 TB boot drive because I do not believe it's a great idea to keep data on the boot drive, for many valid reasons. I would also never build a system with a traditional platter HD. I installed an SD in my laptop, saw what I'd been missing, and installed one in my primary desktop. Best upgrade I ever made.I use WD Caviar Black drives for all of my data, as secondary drives. One issue with 4 TB drives is that some devices for streaming will not recognize them at all (Such as the WD TV Live).
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Current firmware supports 5 and 6tb drives.http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud-EX2/New-Release-WD-My-Cloud-EX2-Firmware-Version-1-04-04-7-23-2014/td-p/769457
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It should work just fine. Totally backwards compatible. I partitioned mine, my wife and I share 3TB, 2.0 USB for both. Works great! Enjoy!
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It should function just as the internal one with the same software, either native Win7 or whatever software you use to read/write. Just select the new drive from Explorer.
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the largest drive i'm using with this is 2TB, but I see no reason why 4TB shouldn't work, as long as you have 64 bit windows.
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That should not be a problem where the hardware is concerned. However, keep in mind your partitioning scheme. You will want to do a GPT partition table (as opposed to MSDOS partition table) with any partitions over 2TB. How you go about that will depend on the OS that you are using.
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You should have no problem plugging in an SSD or SSHD since they all have the same end connection, however, am not sure about the 4TB.
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Physically there is no problem. The N40 does SATA just fine. You will probably have to remount the drives in the provided caddies, which are not hot-swap. WHS may require a re-install, or at the minimum re-entry of the license key since there may be significant differences in drivers/etc., so I hope your data is is in a different partition on your boot drive than windows is. If your drives are RAID, there may be problems - I don't trust any RAID that isn't on a $400+ hardware only card. If you do have to re-install windows, there are 4 external USB and 1 internal USB ports - use one of those with a cheap USB drive for boot since a media server does not need a lot of performance on its boot device. If you like to tinker, this is a good platform. There is almost no internal room for expansion for cards, but I flashed the BIOS to support 6 drives, installed the SATA and power splitter cables, bumped RAM to 8GB, and it has been rock solid with Ubuntu 12.04 as a file server and backup. With 6 drives, so the 150W power supply is not a limiter for my middle of the road 2TB drives. There is a lot of how-to information on the internet. Good luck. Oh - and it is very quiet.
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You should have no problem with this HD. You may wish to partition it though.
1923240
Shouldn't auto format but would most likely give you the option to format/wipe both drives as WHS partitions are not supported.
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I have no idea other than to say it likely is. Check the specs on your existing drive, and if they're similar, I'd get it. It's a very good, fast and seemingly reliable drive. Easy to install. Do not buy the WD!
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I have not tried yet, I am not sure about it. I have got in touch with the technicians at USpeed for their answer. I might buy a 4Tb myself if it works.
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I currently have a 3TB drive in it and it's working fine. I cannot comment on 4TB.