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Yes, you can make changes to your PC to allow a partition that exceeds 2 TB. Is it something for a general PC user to do? Nope. That's all I was saying. Even if you know HOW, it can be a tedious...
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The reason I had trouble believing what you said is that the 2TB limit only applies in certain situations. I have no trouble accessing and using 4TB drives in a single partition under Win10. x64.
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This is incorrect. Just initialize the disk to GPT and size limits are a problem of the past.
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I am interested. How do we co-ordinate this?/
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Then you're only using 2 TB of each of them. That's the limit unless you jump up to 16 TB.
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There should be several options, even for free.
Google 'SMART drive monitoring tools' or similiar.
I believe Crystal Disk Info does this as well.
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Say again? I have several Win10 boxes running 4TB drives.
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It's probably overkill for me if I have to spend much (not that these Nas don't go that high), for my needs the basic Nas hopefully will be enough. But thanks, it's something I can check in the...
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3-year limited warranty
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facepalm... this is why you backup regardless of raid configuration. Are you not getting it?
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Actually I know exactly what data companies do because this is where I learned about this problem from is by the white papers from data companies. Yes they buy 1000's of drives at a time and they are...
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Um yes actually, lots of them. For example, read any of the many times BackBlaze has many whitepapers around it (actually they have tons of really awesome whitepapers around a LOT of different things...
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2 drives dying at the same time still breaks a raid1 setup as well.
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No, he is just trying to act like he knows something that everyone else doesn't.
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Whatever. We actually moved over to SSD drives.
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Had four of these in my synology NAS. Although they are excellent performers, two of them did fail within two years of purchase.
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Has there been a study that confirms your theory, or is it just your projection?
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And here I was thinking everything was fixed now that they differentiated their SMR and CMR drives. That's ridiculous. Guess it's over to Seagate.
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Waste of $$$ if you're running Windows 10 since it only supports up to 2TB, or 16TB
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buy the amount they need +extra drives, test them for a few weeks, bad ones are exchanged, use extras one to test, if okay then deploy setup. receive replacements and test as extras to replace...
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