Everfrost Posted December 14, 2015 Share #1 Posted December 14, 2015 Right now I'm using 4 WD Red 4 TB HDD. They work great, but, unfortunately, I need more So, after some search, I have found this: Seagate Archive HDD V2 ST8000AS0002 8TB. That is an SMR HDD, so it's speed won't be that good. But who cares? I think it will be sufficient for movie/music storage. So, the question is: Will it even work with Xpenology + N54L? P.S.: I've done some search and found nothing Well, someone have successfuly used this HDD on Synology, but N54L and xpenology... I don't know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yaroslava Posted December 14, 2015 Share #2 Posted December 14, 2015 It should work without any issues. There are folks that are using it with synology so as long as you boot of a different disk (not sure whether the bios supports 8TB) you should be just fine. I myself am using 6TB on a G8 - I only have issues in ESXi due to the HP drivers but that's outside Synology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everfrost Posted December 14, 2015 Author Share #3 Posted December 14, 2015 I thought so too, but it's always better to know for sure. Thanks, yaroslava! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everfrost Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share #4 Posted December 16, 2015 OK, so, now I have bought myself a Seagate 8TB Archive drive and I can confirm, that it works just fine. The topic can be closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost12 Posted December 16, 2015 Share #5 Posted December 16, 2015 warning This drive works with xpenology, but it is not recommended to configure the RAID. http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_ar ... review_8tb In my RAID desync a few times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pastrychef Posted December 29, 2015 Share #6 Posted December 29, 2015 I currently have four 8TB drives in my 8 drive array (in the process of making all eight drives 8TBs). There's no denying that the rebuilds are excruciatingly slow, but other than that, they are are fine. I have never had any desync issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost12 Posted December 30, 2015 Share #7 Posted December 30, 2015 but you SMR Seagate technology or some other ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pastrychef Posted December 30, 2015 Share #8 Posted December 30, 2015 Yes, SMR Seagate 8TB drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyxm715 Posted January 1, 2016 Share #9 Posted January 1, 2016 do you use a dvd drive? if not you could install another 4TB in the dvd bay, if you install the modded bios or 2 in the dvd bay if you use the esata port at the back of the server I have 6 3TB drives installed in my N54L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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