Qnap Hard Drive Compatibility List

[Judd Eisenhauer]

Devicecompatibility may be affected if development/support for the device's drivers has been ceased by the manufacturer, third-party contributors, or open-source developers.

Click here to check unofficial (reported by users) compatibility list.

If the SED HDD/SSD cannot be used normally, please use the PSID (Physical Secure ID) and the PSID clear function of the NAS to reset the HDD/SSD to the factory default value. (Note: This will also clear the data in HDD/SSD.)

Notice: QNAP cannot guarantee the drives on the list below are really compatible. Please refer to the official hard drive compatibility list as all the hard drive has been tested under certain test conditions. ( =4085&lang=en-us)

Critical: WD Caviar Black, Caviar Green, and Caviar Blue hard drives are not recommended for and are not warranted for use in RAID environments utilizing Enterprise HBAs and/or expanders and in multi-bay chassis, as they are not designed for, nor tested in, these specific types of RAID applications. For more info, please refer to the following link. ( _id/1397)

Flash these RE4-GP drives with at least firmware 04.05G05 for operation in RAID configuration. You can easily fix high LCC counts by use of the WDIDLE3 tool. No real issues encountered with these drives.

I just purchased a QNAP TS-469U-RP NAS. It is my understanding that just about any SSD will be compatible to work in a NAS, as long as the make and model of all four drives are identical. That being said, QNAP has a web-page listing all hard drives, which have been tested with the TS-469U-RP and are known to be compatible, as shown in the following screenshot.

I want to purchase four Western Digital 1TB Green SSD (model # WDS100T3G0A), simply because I have used them in the past and found WD drives to be reliable. Is there any reason why I should not use the Western Digital SSDs just mentioned in my QNAP TS-469U-RP? If so, why?

Specifically, if you open a support call with QNAP for whatever problem, and the support finds any component in your NAS that isn't on their compatibility list, they will close the support call because you are using an unsupported configuration.

Since vendor support for all components is essential in a business environment, this is a compelling reason to use only components on the official compatibility list even if there isn't any technical necessity.

A:You may need to know if the NAS controller works with drive that have the TLER disabled, or the TLER needs to be enabled on the drive. However, we do support these drive on computers only, but not on RAID environment, please see the RAID enabled drives in the link below: (Enterprise Drive) =2

As suggested by certain hard disk drive providers, the hard disk drives of the same brand and series are collectively recognized as compatible with QNAP products if the largest-capacity drive has passed the compatibility test.

If you are using two 1.5TB or 2TB hard disk drives in TS-209, due to an upper limit of the logical volume capacity, you can only configure the hard disk drives as single disk volumes or RAID 1 disk volume.

To use these models with QNAP NAS, please upgrade the NAS firmware to v3.2.5 or later (TS-109/209/409: v3.2.0), backup the NAS data to another location, and then follow this guide to re-initialize the hard disk drives to adopt the WD Advanced Format Technology. Currently these hard disk drives are not compatible with QNAP NVR.

Since the design of the screw position of this hard disk drive model is slightly different from others, the hard disk drives of 2-bay and 4-bay Turbo NAS may not be detected properly. Please plug the hard disk drive tray into the drive bay until it clicks into place to avoid hard disk drive detection error.

However, the manufacturer has suggested not to use the desktop hard disk drives in business-critical RAID environments because the drives may not work correctly. Please check this link for more information.

QNAP NAS supports a disk volume of larger than 16TB. To use these models with QNAP NAS, please upgrade the NAS firmware to v3.4.0 or later. A disk volume of less than 16TB of storage can only be expanded to maximum 16TB by online RAID capacity expansion or adding hard drives. Online RAID capacity expansion and adding hard drives are not supported for a disk volume of over 16TB.

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Choosing the best hard drives for your network-attached storage (NAS) is incredibly important. Whether you're picking up one of the best NAS units from Synology, QNAP, ASUSTOR, or TerraMaster, good quality storage is an essential addition. Without it, your NAS performance won't be up to scratch and your experience will be hampered.

Western Digital and Seagate are the two giants for storage, and both companies offer an almost identical offering specifically designed with servers in mind. This makes it easy to select the right drive(s) for your NAS. You can find the best HDD for Synology NAS or you can even equip one with an SSD if you're looking for something a little faster.

We all know storage is one of the few things that seems to always be going on sale and a lot of the drives on our list are experiencing sales right now, so make sure to shop around for the best deal to fit your needs. Not sure exactly what you need? Make sure to check our 4 essential tips to help you buy a NAS.

If you need serious storage capacity then go right to the Exos which goes up to 18TB per drive. They're enterprise focused, so ultra reliable and boast up to 550TB per year workload and a long warranty.

Seagate's Pro NAS drives all spin at 7,200 RPM and can handle high sustained and burst data transfer speeds. Toss in a 300TB a year workload and a long warranty and your business has performance and peace of mind.

Similar in performance to the Seagate professional drives, the WD Red Pro is a fine alternative with a little added value thanks to the up to 20TB capacity per drive. Use up to 28 of these and you've got some serious storage.

The Seagate IronWolf series is the company's solution for NAS setups, rivaling the Western Digital Red, but with faster speeds available. Like AgileArray, similar technology is implemented to offer enhanced performance and reliability over desktop drives, and these units can be installed in boxes that support up to eight bays. IronWolf Pro is the next step up with slightly more expensive drives but increased supported bays, workload rates, and a limited warranty.

Much like Seagate, WD has been making storage solutions for PCs for many years, and it offers reliable drives for any NAS. As with the Seagate drives, I recommend at least 4TB. WD's Red Plus hard drives are manufactured for NAS use and can be deployed in systems that support up to eight bays.

Backed by three-year limited warranties and a powerful brand in the storage market, WD drives are well known to be of top quality, and they last a long time. Red isn't the fastest hard drive series on the market, but using them in a RAID formation can make up for this. This particular series of drives comes in 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB, 6TB, 8TB, 10TB, 12TB, and 14TB versions.

Each drive comes with the company's NASware 3.0 for enhanced reliability and performance. It's also worth noting that WD doesn't ship any mounting brackets or screws with these drives. What makes WD drives appealing is that every capacity option has vibration protection, but if you need faster speeds (drives that run at 7,200 RPM), you will need to fork out more for the higher capacities or Red Pro series.

Seagate's Exos series is the company's enterprise range of hard drives. They're designed with helium inside for enhanced performance and reliability. The improved caching is great for big data applications, including Chia farming.

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