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Title: Advanced format drives + FW 1.10 beta
Post by: badmem on May 27, 2011, 02:49:44 AM

Now that the 1.10 beta firmware has been out for a while, what are peoples experience with using advanced format drives like the WD EARS drives in RAID 1 configuration with this firmware?

I am thinking of upgrading from my 2 x 1TB drives to 2 x 2TB drives. The only drives available locally are WD EARS and I want to use the drives in disk mirroring mode.

TIA

Title: Re: Advanced format drives + FW 1.10 beta
Post by: boulgakov on May 27, 2011, 04:50:06 AM

WD EARS won't work with RAID :

http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=12977.0 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=12977.0)

Title: Re: Advanced format drives + FW 1.10 beta
Post by: badmem on August 02, 2011, 08:23:33 AM

I decided to try anyway. I backed up everything, updated the firmware to the 1.1 b7 and installed two 2Tb WD EARS drives. The RAID 1 was created and formatted successfully. I have been using this configuration for two months without a problem, so for me it works reliably.

Title: Re: Advanced format drives + FW 1.10 beta
Post by: dosborne on August 02, 2011, 11:18:32 AM

With the most recent 1.10 beta it should be fine.