Upgrade drives in my older 6TB G|Raid device

G-Technology G-RAID & G-DOCK
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Hey guys, I looked through as best I could, but all I could find were questionable choices of upgrades for the 4TB, like they were at their limit. Being that I have two 3TB drives, could I swap in two 8TB drives? The model is GRADNB60002BAB, I have the serial if its needed. The current drives died about a year ago, and this has been in the closet for a long time. The back connectors are usb 2.0, Firewire 800 and eSata. I use the eSata connection on this. Thanks for any help.

P.S. also has the numbers 0G01975… Don’t know if that helps identify the model also or not.

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We never put drives over 4TB in the USB 2.0 model enclosures but it should still work. We just don’t have support for it.

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So I know you don’t support it, but if I’m ok with the speed of the eSata connection, there shouldn’t be anything limiting, say like 2 8TB drives? Thanks for your help.

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if you use eSATA then it goes off the controller on the computer so it would be related to what that controller supports.

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Is there anything I need to do to reinitialize it after replacing the drives? THere has never been any software for my drives that I know of. Thanks…

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That version of the G-RAID was not able to be configured it was set as RAID0 out of the box.

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Just to let everyone know, 2x8TB drives worked just fine. I forgot that I wasn’t using a esata card, but rather esata to sata port on the board, so after I hooked up and looked in the case, I realized this and had to restart with the drive plugged in ;p derpa…