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LeicaM8

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Nov 29, 2012
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Does anyone know what is the maximum drive size I can put in a WD Premium Edition II Drive Case?
It's one of the early WD External Raid Housings with FW800/400 & USB. It Supports Raid 0 and 1 Only. The WD website has been no help and sifting the google search results is taking awhile.
I need to knowif it can handle 2tb or larger drives and if it can successfully use the WD Green drives, but since the drive can't do JBOD I can't experiment on my own. I don't have a pair of empty green drives or pair of empty 2tb or 3tb drives available and I don't have the $$$ to order a stack of drives from TigerDirect .
Thx in Advance
Richard in Michigan
(I'm not sure if this is the right sub-forum to ask this, but google is giving me a googleplex of spurius results)
 
No, I actually mean Zettabyte. GPT can address 8.4ZB, so two 4ZB drives in RAID0 should still work.

In other words: Terabytes are nine orders of magnitude too small to cause trouble, 4TB drives will work just fine. Just make sure to use GPT (Under Partition->Options in Disk Utility).
 
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No, I actually mean Zettabyte. GPT can address 8.4ZB, so two 4ZB drives in RAID0 should still work.

In other words: Terabytes are an order of magnitude too small to cause trouble, 4TB drives will work just fine. Just make sure to use GPT (Under Partition->Options in Disk Utility).
Zettabyte is a new term for me!
(Photography Esoterica & Engineering terms are my main forte)
A Big Thx for the info. :D
At least I now know there are no theoretic obstacles in my way, but (there's always a but):
I'm still left wondering if there's an Engineering Obstacle lurking out there?
eg: Did WD Design the controller board to only be able to handle _X_TeraBytes?
I wouldn't give it a second thought, but I recall seeing Raid Housings on the net over the years warning about max drive capabilities.
R. In Mi.
 
BUMP

I would like to know this too.

WD support says NOT SUPPORTED. But maybe someone knows HOW to get bigger than 1TB to work. A hack? Linux? Hex editor? Anyone?
 
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