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Title: Western Digital Green 2 Terrabyte hard drive ? Can I use in any way?
Post by: StackYa on May 06, 2009, 04:42:32 AM

Hi,

I have two WD drives, each one 2 terrabytes. Can the dns323 utilize it, if i reformat to 1.5 terrabytes each? is there going to be a firmware upgrade to support full capacity sometime soon?

Thanks

Title: Re: Western Digital Green 2 Terrabyte hard drive ? Can I use in any way?
Post by: ECF on May 06, 2009, 10:52:16 AM

Are you having a problem formating to 2TB?

Title: Re: Western Digital Green 2 Terrabyte hard drive ? Can I use in any way?
Post by: StackYa on May 06, 2009, 01:06:57 PM

I currently have 2 of these drives, and I am wanting to buy the unit. I am wondering if I format the drives ntfs on my pc or something for 2 tarabytes each, would they work if I placed them in the unit together to give me 4 tarabytes total. Would that work? I am just wanting to know if this unit will work with my drives and if so, how would i best use the drives in it.

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Western Digital Green 2 Terrabyte hard drive ? Can I use in any way?
Post by: ECF on May 06, 2009, 01:14:37 PM

The DNS-323 will require you to format the drives in the unit for use. If will format the drives using the EXT2 not NTFS.

As far as I know you should not see any issue using these drives and formating them to the full 2TB's.

Title: Re: Western Digital Green 2 Terrabyte hard drive ? Can I use in any way?
Post by: StackYa on May 06, 2009, 01:51:50 PM

ok will this format type be fast enought to stream hd video?

Thanks for your fast replies :)

Title: Re: Western Digital Green 2 Terrabyte hard drive ? Can I use in any way?
Post by: ttmcmurry on May 06, 2009, 09:47:04 PM

Yes.  If you're streaming HD video wirelessly, you may have issues.  HD is best when wired directly or at least over a 802.11n wireless network.

Title: Re: Western Digital Green 2 Terrabyte hard drive ? Can I use in any way?
Post by: bigclaw on May 07, 2009, 06:26:44 AM

Quote from: StackYa on May 06, 2009, 01:51:50 PM

ok will this format type be fast enought to stream hd video?

Streaming has little to do with the file system format. It's more of a network-related issue.

Title: Re: Western Digital Green 2 Terrabyte hard drive ? Can I use in any way?
Post by: Banshee1971 on May 12, 2009, 03:34:43 PM

In fact, the slowest component dictate the maximum speed available... This is thrue for 95 % of computer system (hardware, software, Modem speed, internet speed,...)... It's the same from the road.. if you have 2 old grand-papa driving at 60 KM/Hrs on the road "side-by-side", you can have a BMW, or more, you will be "jam" behind them... because the slowest dictate the maximum speed !


in the NAS, it's 99 % of the time the network !

Title: Re: Western Digital Green 2 Terrabyte hard drive ? Can I use in any way?
Post by: Fatman on May 12, 2009, 03:41:24 PM

The choke point isn't the network or you would be getting 1000Mbps or a large fraction thereof to this device.

Unfortunately, it is not that simple.