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Building an Array with 4TB Drives..

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Weaksauce
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I currently have a RocketRAID 4320 with Hitachi 2 TB drives (5k3000s and 7K2000s). Alas, I am running out of space, and would like to upgrade to 4TB drives.

Question to RocketRAID 4320 owners: Has anyone tried using 4TB drives on this controller? And if so, which ones have you tried and did they work?

I asked Hightech about using 4TB drives in the RocketRAID 4320 (since none are listed in their officially compatibility list), and here is their response:

We have tested the Hitachi 4TB HDD with our RocketRAID series controllers and did not find any problems.

The RocketRAID 4320 will work with the Hitachi 4TB without problems.

Regards

HighPoint Support Team
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So according to them it should be ok, but they didnt mention a model #, so its hard to say.

The HGST 4TB Deskstar Coolspin drives seem like a good deal at $219. Is it a bad idea going with these? Any chance of them discontinuing them given the buyout by WD?

Thanks!
 
The Hitachi 4TB *7200* RPM drives are $199 this week at Frys (in store only).

Unfortunately, I've been banned so no drives for me.
 
Just a follow-up on this.. Has anyone tried using 4TB drives on the RocketRAID 4320 yet? No 4TB drives are on their HCL, but they claim it "should work". Looking for real-world feedback here before going out and picking some up!

Thanks!
 
Just my off the wall guess, but I would assume that if it can go past 2.2TB then it's good to go with any hard drive for the foreseeable future.

That being said, here is a [H] thread from 2 years ago saying it read a 3TB drive as 2.2TB

Test #3: Highpoint Rocketraid 4320 PCIe 8x raid card
Driver: Highpoint 1.2.28.28
Firmware: v1.2.26.5
Results: Incompatible. Erroneously listed as 21334.37 TB. Shows up as negative gigabytes in Disk Management and unable to use.
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Thanks for the link, westrock.. I checked out the post and I see that the issues were with the v1.2.26.5 firmware. They've since updated to 1.2.42.27 with includes the changelog:

v1.2.42.27 6/27/2011
* Update SAS transport firmware to 4.10.3.0.
* Add support disk which capacity greater or equal 2TB.

so I'm wondering if that may have solved this issue?

I know the RocketRAID had had issues with TLER on WD drives, etc. so since then I'm always looking for a trail blazer before picking up new drives.. :)
 
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