DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

bigmack · 2010-12-17 16:35:14

I am looking to purchase 2 2tb drives for use in a raid1 on a dns-321. I have no idea what drives to purchase as the wd eads 2tb drives are the only 2tb drives listed on d-link's support page. I don't want to have to do anything to keep up these drive like aligning and stuff I keep reading about. I would like to get 2 2tb drives with the 512 sector size that work in raid1. Does anyone have any suggestions other then the wd green eads drives?

Rival · 2010-12-17 21:34:13

I've bought two Samsung HD203WI hard drives. These have 512 byte sectors, the new series HD204UI have 4k sectors. I could buy the new one immediately but I didn't want to risk any failure, so I decided to wait for two weeks for the older series. Everything is working properly. I need a backup solution, I don't use RAID, I use rsync instead. I have no experience with these drives in RAID configuration. As I know 2TB is the largest drive that DNS-323 can handle (with 512 byte sectors). I've used 1,5TB hdds in RAID1 with no problem, I don't see why 2TB shouldn't work.

007james · 2010-12-21 00:07:59

I'm using 2 Seagate ST32000542AS Barracuda LP Hard Drives - 2TB, 5900 RPM, 32MB, SATA-3G and they seem to work fine.... In Raid 1

SkyNet · 2010-12-21 00:41:31

Rival wrote:
As I know 2TB is the largest drive that DNS-323 can handle (with 512 byte sectors).

Is this official from D-Link?

Rival · 2010-12-21 21:27:50

SkyNet wrote:
Rival wrote:
As I know 2TB is the largest drive that DNS-323 can handle (with 512 byte sectors).
Is this official from D-Link?

No, it's a limitation of the firmware (kernel). It can't align partitions on 4k sector HDDs properly out of the box so you may encounter performance issues. You can align partitions manually (http://dns323.kood.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5729), but I didn't want any risk of performance/data loss. DNS-323 needs a firmware upgrade (it should mean a newer kernel) in the future to support hard drives larger than 2 TB with 4k sectors. The LBA addressing limitation of 512 byte sectors and 32 bit systems is ~2 TB (2 ^ 32 * 512 bytes = ~2 TB).

SkyNet · 2010-12-22 01:19:46

I hope D-Link will soon publish a new firmware with new kernel...!

DNS-323 Talker · 2010-12-22 02:17:44

I also ordered a pair of 2TB Seagate Barracuda ST32000542AS drives...should be arriving tomorrow.

Backing up all my data today to an external USB drive in preparation.

tanstaafl1963 · 2011-01-31 19:22:14

DNS-323 Talker wrote:
I also ordered a pair of 2TB Seagate Barracuda ST32000542AS drives...should be arriving tomorrow.

Backing up all my data today to an external USB drive in preparation.

How did your upgrade go? I'm planning out mine now and would be interested in your experience.
http://dns323.kood.org/forum/viewtopic. … 865#p40865

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#1 2010-12-17 16:35:14

2TB Drive

#2 2010-12-17 21:34:13

Re: 2TB Drive

#3 2010-12-21 00:07:59

Re: 2TB Drive

#4 2010-12-21 00:41:31

Re: 2TB Drive

Rival wrote:

#5 2010-12-21 21:27:50

Re: 2TB Drive

SkyNet wrote:

Rival wrote:

#6 2010-12-22 01:19:46

Re: 2TB Drive

#7 2010-12-22 02:17:44

Re: 2TB Drive

#8 2011-01-31 19:22:14

Re: 2TB Drive

DNS-323 Talker wrote:

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