[SOLVED] Can Version 5 support 6TB drives?

[Dropkick Murphy]

I did do a search of the board before asking but I couldn't find anything useful. I'm running out of space on my server and wondering if I can upgrade to 6 TB drives.

 

Version 5.0 Beta 14

14 total drives including cache

 

CPU: AMD Sempron 145 Sargas

MB: Asrock 880 GM-LE AM3 AMD

RAID CARD: Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8

PSU: SILVERSTONE Strider ST60F-PS 600W

 

I heard someone talking about flashing the raid card with upgraded firmware to accommodate larger drives but I'm not sure how to do that.

[trurl]

Yes it can, but why are you running a beta? You should at least upgrade to the stable v5.0.6. Actually you would get better support from the community if you went ahead and upgraded to v6.

[garycase]

Yes, it supports any size drive you want to use - 6TB, 8TB, 10TB, etc.

 

As I presume you know you'll have to upgrade the parity drive first to use the larger drives.

 

[Dropkick Murphy]

To answer your question about upgrading versions...I built this thing in 2011 and it has been running 24/7 (almost) without incident since then so I never felt the need to mess with it. I did have one issue a while back while changing PSU's and adding extra drives. I was down for about a week while troubleshooting an issue and it turned out to be a faulty ICY DOCK 4 into 3 RAID Cage.

 

So there are no issues with using 6TB drives on the Supermicro HBA then?

 

I do understand that I need to upgrade the Parity drive first.

[Dropkick Murphy]

I found a great deal on some WD Blue drives, but I've always used Green. Are there any known issues with Blue?

[JorgeB]

Greens were discontinued, the new blues wdxxezrz replace them, they are the same disk now with a blue sticker.

[Dropkick Murphy]

Greens were discontinued, the new blues wdxxezrz replace them, they are the same disk now with a blue sticker.

 

Good to know, thanks. I bought 4 of them to get the ball rolling and then I'll slowly replace the others as needed.