3TB drives in TS-HTGL/R5 Terastation Pro II

[delsolman]

Hi everyone!

I want ask you please... Is possible to use 4x 3TB drives in my TS-HTGL/R5 Terastation Pro II (originally 4x 1TB drives)

 

I tried two ways, but still without success:

 

a)

- I deleted the RAID there to have SINGLE drives,

- I changed only one (first) drive from 1TB (originally) to my new 3TB drive,

- I got error, that the first hdd is not formated,

- I tried to format the drive with XFS Format, but I got format error.

 

b)

- I changed all drives to my new 3TB drives,

- I started the Terastation with E06 error,

- so I used the TFTP Boot Recovery -> all LEDs are green and Emergecy Mode comes,

- then I tried to upload new firmware by TSUploader (I tried 1.33 and 1.35),

- I get still "ACP_State_Failure"

- so I used ACP_Commander to clear the /boot partition

- the command is: java -jar acp_commander.jar -t 192.168.11.150 -o -cb (the IP of my Terastation)

- the process looks OK, but then when I try to upload my firmware, I get still the "ACP_State_Failure" error!!

 

Could somebody tell me please if the HTGL supports the 3TB drives?? Or is the kernel limited? If yes, is possible to hack the kernel with basic Linux skills?? :-)

 

 

Many thanks for your help!

[davo]

not possible.

[delsolman]

Thank you for your replay, I appreciate that!

But could you write me more please, what's wrong with the 3TB drives??

 

I have also Seagate Black Armor NAS220 6TB = 2x 3TB drives, where are the 3TB drives originally and they work. But the communication with my CFD software is terrible.

So I thought, that they will be work also in Terastation... Now I have serious problem, because I spent 560 euro for four 3TB drives and I can not use them...my boss kill me :-)

 

And what is the maximal size of drives in HTGL? 2TB?

[davo]

The Terastation cannot accomodate 2K sector size HDDs which HDDs larger than 2TB use.

[tetracw]

What about disks using advanced formatting? LIke western digital reds.  Even though they have larger than 2k sector size, the firmware of the disk emulates 512.  Apparently even the 2tb WD Red Disk has 4096k sector.

[davo]

Hasn't been tested, feel free to try it yourself and report your finding here.

[tetracw]

It worked without any issues.  Going to test a few days before making any serious data moves.   5.5gb raid 5 array.  4x 2tb Western Digital Reds

[aventure]

So does this mean that 3tb WD red disks would also work ?

[tetracw]

I wonder the same thing myself.   The 3tb drives use the same type of firmware.  

 

I also tested the raid recently.  I pulled the drive reboot, data was still intact.  Reconnected the drive and the NAS rebuilt the array.  Nothing bad happened :) 

[aventure]

I'll let you know, just ordered the drives but have another use for them if its not going to work...!

 

[tetracw]

awesome. let us know, i'm very interested after all the research i've done. 

[GabrielKnight]

 

Would love to hear from someone who's actually tried to install 3Tb drives to confirm for sure whether it can be done or not. They're only £10 - £20 more than the 2Tbs.

 

@aventure:

 So.... what was the outcome when you tried the 3Tb hard drives? I want to upgrade my Terastation II and the suspense is killing me! Please post!

 

 

[raiden658]

I have the 3tb wd reds, what is the procedure for swapping them out.

[GabrielKnight]

I'm guessing just swap the drives over, and follow this, choosing RAID 5

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQJI8W_np7g&feature=plcp&context=C4b98582VDvjVQa1PpcFMuHvFadXTZysHnU3gEb-szyZ_4dYiro9E%3D

 

[Sven1205]

Hi there, some news about the 3TB drives, is it working ? Thanks for answer