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Unread 08-20-2009, 10:09 AM   #34
jladelfa
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Default Re: Snap Server 4200 replaced drives how having issues

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Originally Posted by schnappi View Post
I don't like confliction but deffinitly:

1) Snap Server 4200 can't manage drives bigger than 500 Gig. (4400 can!)
2) Snap Server 4200/4500 can't manage WD5000AAKB well. You can use them but the controller limits the data flow.
So Raid 5 building needs 3-4 days.

Definitely. Try, but don't scream.

@jladelfa

Take another 4 500 Gig drives and it will "sashaying".
Again (to phoenix32) I'm not trying to spread "bad info", but as far as my experience with my current ordeal:

1. My research says it can IF you can get the proper adapters for the bigger drives. I believe it can handle up to 18 or 22 TB.

2. Can't say for sure, but those are the drives I have and it told me it would take 22 hours to move 33 gigs onto it. Also, note, the error logs I've posted which would lead me to believe it does have an issue dealing with those drives. I could be wrong though. Also, it did, in fact, take at least 3 days to resync every time I set up the RAID.

Also, when I just had the one new drive in it, in RAID 0, it flew. Awesome transfer times. The second I put one more new drive in it, made it another vol, it was back to dragging ass....both of the drives.

So maybe it isn't an issue with the drives per say, but when the snap tries to manage them in a RAID. (or even in seperate RAIDs)
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