So I bought one and put two Seagate NAS 4 TB drives in. These drives are shown in the Buffalo config software as having only 3.7 TB. Why is that?
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In advertising terms and our day to day discussions, 1gb is 1000Mb. According to an OS though a gb is 1024mb. This means 1tb is 976gb. In addition this box does not come with an OS - that is loaded onto your disc, although it is relatively small. Finally, I could be wrong but I think if you put the two drives into Raid array that will further decrease your space.
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Btw I hated setting this thing up, but once done it works beauty. But I may have said all that before ;)
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3.7 TV is the normal available space for 4 TB drives, some space is used as the index of files on the drives and the drives are listed as 1000 gig x 4 but the software the system itself calculates 1024 gig as a TB, so shows a smaller value.
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If you were using an external case for the drive, the problem is that it's an older case that topped out at 2TB. You might have a similar problem with your BIOS or drivers if it is inside a computer doing this. If you are using an external case, might I suggest Orico, as they make some really nice 3TB compat (make sure any one you buy says 3TB compat or 4TB compat) external drive cases. (3519, 3529, etc)... For example here is one that I just bought with two of these drives: ORICO Tool Free Aluminum USB3.0 eSATA Dual Bay 3.5 inch SATA External Hard Drive Enclosure - Black(3529SUS3-C) If you were using an external case for the drive, the problem is that it's an older case that topped out at 2TB. You might have a similar problem with your BIOS or drivers if it is inside a computer doing this. If you are using an external case, might I suggest Orico, as they make some really nice 3TB compat (make sure any one you buy says 3TB compat or 4TB compat) external drive cases. (3519, 3529, etc)... For example here is one that I just bought with two of these drives: ORICO Tool Free Aluminum USB3.0 eSATA Dual Bay 3.5 inch SATA... » Read More If you were using an external case for the drive, the problem is that it's an older case that topped out at 2TB. You might have a similar problem with your BIOS or drivers if it is inside a computer doing this. If you are using an external case, might I suggest Orico, as they make some really nice 3TB compat (make sure any one you buy says 3TB compat or 4TB compat) external drive cases. (3519, 3529, etc)... For example here is one that I just bought with two of these drives: ORICO Tool Free Aluminum USB3.0 eSATA Dual Bay 3.5 inch SATA External Hard Drive Enclosure - Black(3529SUS3-C) « Show Less
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I purchased the 2-drive version, but if the same thing applies to this as other 4-drive NAS's, you'll want to install them at least in pairs (if doing RAID 0 or 1). If you're going to want RAID 5 (and if the 4-drive unit supports it, which I assume it does), you'll want to install all 4 for best results. Edit: The 4-drive NAS's I've used only allow for 2 arrays, so don't plan on having 4 separate single-drive arrays.
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I'm having a problem with a 3TB drive... shows up as 2.2TB and 800GB. Refer to http://www.pcworld.com/article/235088/everything_you_need_to_know_about_3TB_hard_drives.html
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Before I bought mine, I checked the Buffalo website. It can vary depending on when you buy it and the size drives you get. Mine came with Western Blue drives.
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If you are set on Raid 1, it will limit you to 4 TB because the other drive is duplicating #1. If you go into your WD My Cloud you can change from Raid 1 and obtain full use of the aggregate 8 TB if that is what you want.
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Several model variations are available. Some have 750 GB at 5400 RPM while some have 1 TB at 5400 RPM.
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You call get and RMA and send it to buffalo. I have 4 and 2 failed. Sent one in and 1 they lost it. the other one the "case was opnened" so warranty is void. Hope you have better luck. Waiting for #3 and #4 to fail. I took the drive out of #2 and it works fine.
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No it doesn't need it. So I just started with 2 old 1TB HDDs than after 1.5 week I added 3 4TB new HDDs. Later I expended 3 4TB HDD with 1 more of the same type. Finally I have 2 disk groups. Configuration of NAS is very flexible and it is really fully up to you.
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Sorry, I can't find that info in my booklet. Try going to the Seagate website.
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I bought 2 units with 2 Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 7200 RPM 3.5-Inch drives 7 months ago. Both of the drives have been running 24/7 non stop without any issues.
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I have several Seagate 4 TB drives plugged into my StarTech Hard Drive Enclosures, so 3 TB should be no problem.
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The physical sector size of the 2TB drive was (surprisingly) 4096 making it a 4k /Advanced Format Drive. I no longer have the drive to verify my memory on this but that is what my review was about. Formerly Seagate's 2TB external Backup Plus drives were 512 making them compatible with Windows 7 backup and imaging utilities-that's why I say "surprisingly". Since there is no indication of this change on the packaging (even though there is a logo for Advanced Format 4kn-native-and Advanced Format 512e -emulation drives) you would not know it until you bought the drive and tried to use the utilities. If you already bought the drive you can run the command line: Fsutil Fsinfo ntfsinfo x: (where x: is the drive's letter designation) to verify-too little too late, unfortunately! It would be hard to convince me this isn't Seagate's deliberate omission and I think Amazon should have this information listed as well.
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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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Hi Nat....I have a 3TB 2-bay NAS, and the AIOS sees it fine under the Network\'NASName' heading. All I had to do was mount the directories I wanted to share.
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I have 2 (two) 8TB Seagate 3.5" hard drive in it and both works flawlessly, writing at the same time using a single eSATA interface. So with 4TB only 50% of my capacity per drive, it will support. In fact, I don't think it's the box's job to claim what it supports, it's just a marketing ploy and as you can see it's outdated. 6TB and 8TB drives are out now and they work.
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I have a 3tb drive in mine and it works fine I don't see any reason why it won't work with a 4 Tb drive