Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
Surely the specs document that quite clearly? It's the typical bit of leverage that make people buy the bigger/next one.
When released in 2010 it was 2TB drives max, and the biggest volume was 12GB I think. In 2013, they released a firmware update to 4 TB / 16GB.
We have a number of storage servers with that 2Tb/drive limitation too. No updated firmware available from 3ware, they would rather we upgraded the controllers :-) Instead I keep buying 2Tb drives, two every other month. I sometimes think the manufacturers ought to put a switch on drives to limit capacity to 2Tb, but sofar 2Tb drives have remained available.
I hope they have done another upgrade since then, but I haven't researched it as much as I could have. I didn't really expect to win the bid at $150.since they were over $2K new.
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