I just bought a new EX4 with 16TB. So far I love it, for the most part. The control panel is certainly a big improvement over my 6TB Duo.
However, I was disappointed it was already pre-formatted for RAID 5, which I didn’t realize until after I transferred and wiped all the data from my Duo drive. So instead of doubling my capacity I only added 50%, and it’s definately not worth the money I paid for only 4TM more. A
WD - there is a spelling error under “Device Maintenance”. My machine says the Device Uptime is “0 day 14 hourss 5 minutes”. There is one too many “s” in “hours”.
I just bought a new EX4 with 16TB. So far I love it, for the most part. The control panel is certainly a big improvement over my 6TB Duo.
However, I was disappointed it was already pre-formatted for RAID 5, which I didn’t realize until after I transferred and wiped all the data from my Duo drive. So instead of doubling my capacity I only added 50%, and it’s definately not worth the money I paid for only 4TM more. A
WD - there is a spelling error under “Device Maintenance”. My machine says the Device Uptime is “0 day 14 hourss 5 minutes”. There is one too many “s” in “hours”.
Thanks for your feedback!
WD Support can help you change your device to RAID 0 mode, which will give you the full 16TB volume without the protection of fault tolerance. ( http://support.wdc.com))