I have a Share Space WD40000 (4x1 TB drives in Raid 5) which recently had all of its Drives fail (out of warranty). I noticed that the WD10EARS drives that came with it originally have been discontinued. Can I still buy a drive to replace these with? Do I need to stick to Green Drives? Can go larger than 1 TB on the drives?
I tried looking within the Help files of the product, and then on the website and I couldn’t find any information.
Hello, you can use any of the other 1TB greens with the same specs, if you enter a larger capacity hard drive the Sharespace will format it as a 1TB hard drive. Check the link below to view all the WD Green models.
If you do some searching in this forum you will find that the last post is a little misleading Have a search and find that you can increase capacity. Also, having four drives fail at once is very bad luck - almost impossible. If you have no data to lose try and remove them one at a time and test in a PC using a diagnostic tool.