According to the description of the device by the seller it can take 4 x 1TB drives .. is this true ? finding it hard to get the maximum drive accepted on this device .. seeing as it's discontinued.
thanks
two answers .. each different ..
Don't mind if I break warranty .. will it take 4 x 1TB drives and RAID 5 them to give 3TB usable ?
Don't want to buy the drives if it won't take them.
That was my mistake, sorry. Tanjl is correct, these unit have only been tested up to 2TB.
You can download the manual from the downloads section of this site (Support> Downloads) Select TS Pro.
Did you end up trying this with 1Tb drives? My Terastation Pro 1 is past the warranty already anyway. I just want to know if it will accept and properly use 4x1TB drives. Please let me know if you tried it and it worked.
Thanks, Jim
Thanks for the response Josh. I agree, I think it will. I'm just concerned the kernel/bios has an addressing limitation that would prevent recognizing drives over 500GB each, since that is all Buffalo supports. I would love to know if anyone has actually put 1TB drives in it and could confirm one way or the other.
Thanks again, Jim
The way to increase size is to:
Power down the unit and insert your new 500GB into slot one, boot up the TS, log onto the interface page and restructure the raid.
Once done, power down the unit again, replace drive 2 and again restructure. Do this with all 4 drive and once the restructuring has been completed on the 4th drive you should see the increased capasity ;-)
Thanks for the response davo. That's not really what the question is about though. I 'know' that the system will accept 4x500GB drives for a total of 2TB of storage. What I'm wondering, even though it isn't officially supported by Buffalo, is whether or not the system will accept 4x1TB drives for a total capacity of 4TB (3TB in raid 5). Is there a limitation in the bios/kernal/raid controller?
I do understand the upgrade process you're talking about, and that's how the drives will eventually get loaded, but the question is about drive size.
Thanks for the bump though ;)
Yes it does support up to 2TB.
I've done it on the Terastation Pro 1 (TsS-2.0TGL/R5) twice.
Now for my next adventure, can it support 4TB?!!
Muaahahahaha!
Now for my next adventure, can it support 4TB?!!
Now THAT is the question we are trying to resolve in this thread! BUMP!
I emailed tech support a week ago, still no answer...
Thanks for the response Dustrega. At this point I realize Buffalo's response is going to be that nothing over 2TB is supported. Since it is a forum, I'm more hoping that someone comes along and can just give a definitive yea or nea on having tried 1TB drives in this unit.
You do have me confused though. I've never removed my drives from the Terastation Pro I, but I'm pretty sure from looking at the configuration screen that there are SATA drives inside, not IDE. And 1TB SATA drives are extremely affordable these days.
Excellent, thanks for the link. One question, will upgrading the firmware keep my raid settings and data or break the raid array and require me to reload data?
Thanks, Jim
I think the case is going to be closed on this one. See the link below with an excellent discussion of the limitations of TS Pro V1 (and other similar models).
Essentially, the limit to the maximum filesystem size is imposed by the 2.4 version of the linux kernel being used. I've checked the firmware 1.04, and I don't see anything indicating that the kernel was updated to 2.6.
If you need Raid 5, which I do, then you're stuck at 2TB max and there isn't much that can be done about it. If you just need something like JBOD, and you're comfortable with the linux command line, there are very good instructions at the link below. For us, however, we'll just go w/ the 2TB limit and look to upgrade when we fill that.
Thanks for all the help guys, I appreciate it. Jim
Link: http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.php/TeraStation_larger_disks
P.S. If anyone knows how to upgrade a terastation Pro I to kernel 2.6, then I'm all ears ;). It would probably break the GUI, but I'm fine with that.
THis piece of junk can't upgrade or anything larger than 500GB drive.
I never heard of anything like this before. There is a 127GB limit of computer like 10 years ago but I never heard of any device being limited by 500GB on a freaking SATA connection!
Someone at buffalo really dropped the ball on this device or has limited the drives on purpose in order to cause people to buy new machines.
Useless!!!
Can't Buffalo release a firmware update to fix this 2TB limit? I hear the probem might be with the 2.4 Version of the operating system but the 2.6 version on the OS fixes this. However buffalo does not have any firmware for this machine that runs on the 2.6 version on the Kernal.
I bought a Readynas from infrant that is very very old. I updated the firmware today and it can support all moderm drives 2TB drives plus anything else that might come out in the future. Even know the company is now own by netgear and my product is an Infrant readynas, they still stood by the product and produced firmware to make it work.
I wish buffalo would take a page fromt the readynas book instead of telling you that you can't upgrade your machine which is running a wopping 250GB hard drive when the norm on the street now 8 times the size 2,000GB ( 2TB)
Buffalo needs to get out of the hard drive business an into the RAID NAS business. Part of the reason they are rated so low is because of the refurbished junk hard drive they include which break like crazy mixed with the scoreful attitute towards replacing hard drives which all other NAS devices strong encourage. Thecus does not tell people " oh, don't touch the hard drive, you have to stick with only our special hard drives"
In closing with my random rant, Buffalo need to update the firmware for the Terastation Pro 1 to allow it to support hard drives larger than 500GB and start getting with the times that NAS devices are suppose to be upgradable as the technology improves. We are consumers want the same thing as in the braveheart movie. "FREEDOM !! to upgrade our Hard drives!
Thanks.