timbarrett 0 Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 I'm wanting to find out if anyone has tried using a Western Digital 6TB Red drive (#WD60EFRX) in a Gen 8 MicroServer?www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810 I spoke with Greg Starks from HP this morning and he said that HP hasn't tried that drive yet. They only officially support 3TB drives. (Page 3 on the Gen 8 Quick Specs sheet) http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c04128132&doctype=quickspecs&doclang=EN_US&searchquery=&cc=us&lc=en Greg suggested checking this forum on homeservershow.com. (Also, this is for a data drive, not OS drive). Has anyone tried out the 6TB drive? Thanks! -Tim BarrettNoGeekLeftBehind.com Link to post Share on other sites
jmwills 284 Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 I really don't see much difference in a 3TB & 6TB. Getting past 2TB was the big obstacle. Link to post Share on other sites
ikon 439 Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 ^^ What he said. Once past the 2TB limit, it should be a long time before there are any hardware restrictions on drive size. There will be some OS limitations. For instance, I believe that Windows has a limit of something like 255 Terabytes at the moment. GPT itself can support 18 Exabytes. Link to post Share on other sites
jmwills 284 Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 The only issue I can see with the bigger drives is more heat. Cooling will be at a premium. Link to post Share on other sites
ikon 439 Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 With the WD Reds I don't think that will be much of a problem. Link to post Share on other sites
yodafett 97 Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 Hmm if HP is referring people to us for supporting the microserver should we not get iLO and firmware for life 1 Link to post Share on other sites
ikon 439 Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 Hmm if HP is referring people to us for supporting the microserver should we not get iLO and firmware for life Greg Starks is the HP guy who was posting on here for a while. He hasn't posted in quite a while - I suspect he was warned off doing that, probably by HP management. Link to post Share on other sites
Joe_Miner 254 Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 I'm wanting to find out if anyone has tried using a Western Digital 6TB Red drive (#WD60EFRX) in a Gen 8 MicroServer? www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810 I spoke with Greg Starks from HP this morning and he said that HP hasn't tried that drive yet. They only officially support 3TB drives. (Page 3 on the Gen 8 Quick Specs sheet) http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c04128132&doctype=quickspecs&doclang=EN_US&searchquery=&cc=us&lc=en Greg suggested checking this forum on homeservershow.com. (Also, this is for a data drive, not OS drive). Has anyone tried out the 6TB drive? Thanks! -Tim Barrett NoGeekLeftBehind.com Hi Tim! To the best of my recollection 4TB drives are the largest actually reported having been used in the wild.... http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/topic/6652-disk-size-limitation-gen8-microserver/ http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/topic/6207-g8-and-4tb-drives/ http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/topic/8164-anyone-tried-hdds-bigger-than-3tb-on-b120i/ http://sammit.net/hp-proliant-microserver-gen8-supports-4tb-drives/ Have you checked these other Gen8 Forums........... http://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/f101/hp-proliant-g8-g1610t-g2020t-e3-1220lv2-microserver-963207.html (this is in German) http://www.avforums.com/threads/hp-microserver-g8-is-here.1783788/ http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=1092937 The largest drive I've tried personally in my Gen8 is 3TB but I'm running 4TB's in my N54L Link to post Share on other sites
cskenney 155 Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 I am sure if someone wants to send Mr. Microserver....I mean Joe_Miner a 6TB Red to try he would be more than happy to evaluate if it would work. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Joe_Miner 254 Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 I am sure if someone wants to send Mr. Microserver....I mean Joe_Miner a 6TB Red to try he would be more than happy to evaluate if it would work. I would be thrilled! I suspect you'd also be happy to test some out in the QNap also! Link to post Share on other sites
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