Can I substitute other identical physical sized hard drives to this unit, such as four western digital green series 3TB or 4TB hard drives instead? WD Red Enterprise drives are great, but too expensive, and not everyone necessarily needs them for their...
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If you buy 16TB you can't add more, but in case that one crashed you can simply replace it with same size, all drives must have same size, for example you have 4TBx4, to replace one it has to be 4TB if it is 3TBx4 to replace it has to be 3TB and so on, this the rules of RAID 5 configuration.
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My two WD Green 2TB drives worked until one failed. The two WD Red 4-TB drive does not work in DNS-321, failed to format and could not recognize the correct capacity in the RAID 1 configuration menu. FW is v1.03.
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There are four internal 3.5" drive bays. There is, additionally, a 5.25" external drive bay that isn't used that some people use to hook up additional disks with an adapter. 4TB disks work in this system, if your operating system supports them. I've been particularly happy with WD Red disks in this chassis.
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I haven't opened my case yet, but I have a 500 GB solid state drive. It's possible it can be a Western Digital, but I don't know if they vary based on drive size. The 1 TB drive could be from a different manufacturer.
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I have eight Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB WD30EZRZ in mine and they work great. They recommend 3TB, but I know of friends that are using 4TB.
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Yes, I have one built with 4x6TB WD RED drives in an 18TB RAID-5 volume. I was able to format it with GPT, NTFS. I tested copying files, and I ran a chkdsk /r to test the free space. Everything looks good so far. I am going to be using it soon to fill with data.
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I would suggest you visit the thecus website, find the unit you are interested in and then look up the HDD compatibility for the drives you are thinking about. I would recommend you pick enterprise type disks and buy a spare additional disk of the same kind to have on the shelf in case one fails.
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This NAS does not ship with hard drives. You can view a full compatible list here:http://www.qnap.com/i/en/product_x_grade/product_intro.php?g_cat=1&II;=117&hf;=oldI purchased two of these from Amazon Warehouse, and both work flawlessly.WD Red 3 TB NAS Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, SATA III, 64 MB Cache - WD30EFRX
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I used 4TB Drives from WDC and Seagate, they work fine. I don't know if 5TB drive would work or not.
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Western Digital is one of the best hard drives. I can tell you that I always buy western digital hd I have about 6 hard drives and only one failed but the great news is the kind of warranty about 1 to 3 years for replacement and that hd that failed I sent it to the warranty and they gave me a new one...
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Confusing right? They sell just the hardware and shell. You have to buy the drives. I went with WD Red series. I would recommend you buy two drives ; one to make a mirror backup of the main drive. If yuh have a lot of home videos, buy two 3 TB drives or higher. My analysis suggests that this is the best price point. It is, overall, a $500 investment. But, it's worth it for pictures, phones and computer backup.
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I don't see why it wouldn't be. BUT I would suggest a 2tb WD Black instead. Windows defaults to an MBR storage format which I KY supports up to 2.2tb. You can't even partition the other 800gb into another drive. You can change the format to GPT which would allow you to use all 3tb, but it's a pain in the butt and if this will be your only storage drive I would steer clear of doing that. Quick summary: A WD Black should work no problem, but I'd personally go with a 2tb version. Hope this helps!
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It requests a wd red nas drive if the hard drives you have are nas drives I dont see why they wouldn't work the two disks do not need to match in size
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both are SATA. the major difference comes between the Western Digital Red Blue and Green lines. Red is Network Attached storage and server line quality. usually they are better built than your standard Blue but cost more than the Blue. as i just mentioned the WD Blue is the mainstream line drive. Green is a more energy efficient line of hard drive.For example i had a computer with a old Quantium Fireball IDE drive and i replaced it with a larger Western Digital Blue IDE and it worked fine.
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Aside from cost considerations, why would you want to do that? If there is one thing I've learned, it is always better to go big when it comes to HDs. 1 T might seem like a lot now, but I bet you'd be suprised how fast you fill it up. I'm wondering if there is a 3rd party alternative that costs less...
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If you pre purchase the 16TB it comes with Reds and you cant change that. But if you buy the disk less version you can put any drive in their compatibility list on WDs site. Some current Greens are on there, but they are unable to test backward with older Greens that are no longer manufactured. (but may still work) I am using 2 not on their list and they work fine.
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I have a diskless version. I did buy the disk separatly and did not have any problem.i idid buy wd red label hd.