Author Topic: Buffalo TeraStation TS5400R Hard Drive Capacity Support  (Read 18556 times)

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Re: Buffalo TeraStation TS5400R Hard Drive Capacity Support
« Reply #15 on: January 28, 2019, 10:08:59 PM »
Just sharing knowledge.
I just upgraded my TS5400R with 4X 12TB drives. Seagate IronWolf Pro ST12000NE0007
I'm running them in Raid 10 without a problem.
But before i did the Raid 10, i tried Raid 0 and Raid 5 so that i could share the knowledge here.
They all worked just fine.

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Re: Buffalo TeraStation TS5400R Hard Drive Capacity Support
« Reply #16 on: February 21, 2019, 02:03:19 AM »
Hackmaxx, thanks so much for sharing that! You confirmed what I really needed to know. I'll probaby go with either 12TB or even 14TB drives and report back here.

Did you also upgrade the onboard RAM?

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Re: Buffalo TeraStation TS5400R Hard Drive Capacity Support
« Reply #17 on: February 21, 2019, 07:29:43 AM »
Dumb question: 4x 12tb drives in raid10 would be a ~24tb array, have you tried filling it up? My guess is that a 24tb xfs volume on a 64-bit kernel (even an older one like this) would work but I’ve never tested. I have run into a hard 16tb limit on 32bit systems (xfs and ext4) and even on 64bit systems with ext4.

Try filling it up with data and make sure you can actually write past the 16tb mark. Even on 64-bit systems the default for some filesystems is still a 32-bit address space (2^32 * 4k blocks = 16tb).

Its probably fine but you dont want to learn the hard way

 

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Re: Buffalo TeraStation TS5400R Hard Drive Capacity Support
« Reply #18 on: February 21, 2019, 08:02:03 AM »
I had tested to format a 24TB Raid5 (4x 8TB)
mdadm was able to start the array, but mkfs.xfs was not able to create the filesystem
(LS-QVL  Marvell 88F6282 ARM)

Hackmaxxx was able to do that.


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Re: Buffalo TeraStation TS5400R Hard Drive Capacity Support
« Reply #19 on: February 21, 2019, 08:45:10 AM »
I wish I had taken better notes when I did that testing. I remember some in some instances mkfs did fail but I think it did succeed for some filesystems.... or maybe mkfs would fail but growing the filesystem wouldn’t throw any errors.

I do remember that mdadm had no problem creating the array but dd and other tools would fail writing aything past 16tb.

I always try to recommend testing you can write to an entire array before relying on it becuase these types of issues aren’t always aparent right away.

Over the years I’ve run into 4 or 5 independent issues that resulted in drives/arrays that reported one size but could only be partially accessed ~2 of which were related to 16tb kernel/filesystem limits.

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Re: Buffalo TeraStation TS5400R Hard Drive Capacity Support
« Reply #20 on: February 22, 2019, 11:22:01 AM »
Joined this forum just to say thank you. been looking for a NAS that can support 8tb + drives. you guys rock.

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Re: Buffalo TeraStation TS5400R Hard Drive Capacity Support
« Reply #21 on: March 01, 2019, 02:40:24 PM »
Hackmaxx, thanks so much for sharing that! You confirmed what I really needed to know. I'll probaby go with either 12TB or even 14TB drives and report back here.

Did you also upgrade the onboard RAM?

I did not upgrade the ram. The NAS is only used for Acronis backup storage. Users don't connect to it for file transfers.
I did check the NAS logs and do not see any spikes in CPU or memory.

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Re: Buffalo TeraStation TS5400R Hard Drive Capacity Support
« Reply #22 on: March 01, 2019, 02:45:20 PM »
Dumb question: 4x 12tb drives in raid10 would be a ~24tb array, have you tried filling it up? My guess is that a 24tb xfs volume on a 64-bit kernel (even an older one like this) would work but I’ve never tested. I have run into a hard 16tb limit on 32bit systems (xfs and ext4) and even on 64bit systems with ext4.

Try filling it up with data and make sure you can actually write past the 16tb mark. Even on 64-bit systems the default for some filesystems is still a 32-bit address space (2^32 * 4k blocks = 16tb).

Its probably fine but you dont want to learn the hard way

I did read about the 16tb limit, but was told by tech support that there is no such limit.
I thought it was worth the gamble to buy 4x 12tb drives for $2400 cad, then it was to have to buy another NAS for over $5000 cad.

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Re: Buffalo TeraStation TS5400R Hard Drive Capacity Support
« Reply #23 on: January 21, 2020, 04:18:32 PM »
Sorry to reopen this thread, but you guys seem to have a lot of experience upgrading these systems and I want to make use of that knowledge.

I have a TS5400R that came with 2TB drives, it is FULL and I want to upgrade.  This unit is being used as an ArcServe backup storage location and is configured in RAID 5 (YEA I KNOW.....) but since it is just backup storage I am comfortable with 5 since it gives me the most amount of storage with some redundancy.
I would like to keep the current backups and have them available on the new array, is it possible to replace the drives one at a time and then expand the array after all have been upgraded to 8TB drives? Or would it just make more sense to pull the current drives place in storage and reinstall if I ever needed to get something off them?


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Re: Buffalo TeraStation TS5400R Hard Drive Capacity Support
« Reply #24 on: January 23, 2020, 01:43:17 PM »
Hello garryschaffel,

I think your best bet would be to pull your data onto another drive then replace the drives in your NAS.
These boxes are not the fastest at rebuilding Raid arrays.
It will take a really long time for it to rebuild the array 4 times.

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Re: Buffalo TeraStation TS5400R Hard Drive Capacity Support
« Reply #25 on: October 23, 2020, 02:05:15 PM »
Dumb question: 4x 12tb drives in raid10 would be a ~24tb array, have you tried filling it up? My guess is that a 24tb xfs volume on a 64-bit kernel (even an older one like this) would work but I’ve never tested. I have run into a hard 16tb limit on 32bit systems (xfs and ext4) and even on 64bit systems with ext4.

Try filling it up with data and make sure you can actually write past the 16tb mark. Even on 64-bit systems the default for some filesystems is still a 32-bit address space (2^32 * 4k blocks = 16tb).

Its probably fine but you dont want to learn the hard way

I did read about the 16tb limit, but was told by tech support that there is no such limit.
I thought it was worth the gamble to buy 4x 12tb drives for $2400 cad, then it was to have to buy another NAS for over $5000 cad.

Sorry for renecroing an old thread, but I couldn't find much else on this topic.  I have a TS5800D with 8x3TB that's almost full.  My idea is to buy 4x16tb Exos drives (https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07SPFPKF4/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=AECIPMEQNVKO2&psc=1) and then add more to the pool as I need more storage.  I'm a little worried that it might not work and a little unsure if you can add drives to the pool after creating a RAID.  Right now I'm in RAID 6 (with 2 drives of redundancy). 

Any thoughts on this?  Sorry if any of my terminology is wrong.  I'm not very deep in the learning curve about NAS.

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Re: Buffalo TeraStation TS5400R Hard Drive Capacity Support
« Reply #26 on: October 28, 2020, 10:35:00 AM »


I've got some notes about ram upgrades for the TS5000 here:
https://buffalonas.miraheze.org/wiki/Terastation_TS5600DN#Device_Notes

I believe I read that 4GB is the max for this chipset. I seems pretty flexible regarding what DDR3 SODIMMs it will accept. I've had good luck on several devices with really cheap modules.

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Re: Buffalo TeraStation TS5400R Hard Drive Capacity Support
« Reply #27 on: October 28, 2021, 09:02:28 AM »
Re-re-necroing this one :)

I recently acquired a used TS5400DN (came without disks), and was able to get Debian running on it by initially populating the box with 1 HDD. I am now in the process of getting 4x 16TB WD Gold drives for this. Will report back on compatibility. I will continue to use Debian.

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Re: Buffalo TeraStation TS5400R Hard Drive Capacity Support
« Reply #28 on: October 28, 2021, 11:23:08 AM »
Let us know what happens!

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Re: Buffalo TeraStation TS5400R Hard Drive Capacity Support
« Reply #29 on: October 31, 2021, 10:48:47 AM »
Re-re-necroing this one :)

I recently acquired a used TS5400DN (came without disks), and was able to get Debian running on it by initially populating the box with 1 HDD. I am now in the process of getting 4x 16TB WD Gold drives for this. Will report back on compatibility. I will continue to use Debian.

I'm back with an update!

The NAS is successfully using the 16TB HDDs! :D (They show up as 14.6T, of course)

Also, I upgraded the RAM using a Patriot 1600 MHz 4GB DDR3 module and that works too!

Side note: I'm now running Debian off an SSD hooked to a USB 3.0 port on the back to keep OS and data separate :) Running like butter!