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TS-453D with 18TB HDDs? - Enquiries - 02-28-2020
Hi, thanks for your tremendously helpful videos on youtube. I am wondering if you can tell me how often Qnap increases the supported size of hard drives in their units and firmware. I know they have an approved list and there are no 18TB drives on that list currently. I am wondering if I should just keep these drives that I purchased and wait or if there is some reason that it will simply never happen with the TS-453D. It has been hard to find this information anywhere and Qnap won't commit to it NOT working, they just say it is untested and unsupported at this time.
TS-453D with 18TB HDDs? - ed - 03-17-2021
Qnap 53D and other models will work also with 18TB drives. The only limiting factor is a power supply. But these drives do not consume any more power than others.They are just very slow at testing drives. But it will work.I hope this helps.