Seagate 4TB drives in HP N40L

[adrianwi]

Anyone using this combination, and if so any issues?

 

[silvesj]

I'm currently working through some issues. Not sure if you went forward...did this... and got it working? But my n40l will not see the 4TB drives.

 

[joeschmuck]

Do not create duplicate posting for a problem. Your second posting was deleted. You need to add more information such as what kind of error messages you get, how are the drives connected, list all your hardware, etc... When it boots up, does the console screen list the drives at all? What are your BIOS settings, AHCI?

 

[adrianwi]

I only got as far as buying a couple of 4TB drives, that I've used to make some static backups of the data on the FreeNAS box. Was planning on upgrading when one of the disks die, so hopefully that will be some time off and this won't be a problem then.

 

[adrianwi]

Well, I got around to trying this sooner than I thought as I started to get a warning message to tell me I was over 80% capacity.

First one (Seagate 4TB NAS drive) appears to have gone in fine, although I have a 20+ hour wait for the resilvering to complete. Might have them all replaced by this time next week

Anyone care to explain what the impact of running over 80% capacity is?

Cheers

 

[jgreco]

Poor performance and increased fragmentation which leads to even poorer performance...

 

[adrianwi]

Well, all 4 drives are in so in answer to my original post, yes and no :)

Absolutely no drama, but a fairly long process waiting for each new drive to resilver. Now have 3.7TB free and a green status light back.

Now if I could just fix the rsync problem...