Reviews - Thecus N7700: seven bays of NAS goodness?

[HEXUS]

Moving on from the popular N5200 Pro, we take a look at Thecus' seven-bay enterprise solution.

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[Funkstar]

There is still a long running issue with 1.5TB drives in the Thecus products.

http://forums.hexus.net/thecus-care-...b-seagate.html

I'm surprised to see it is in the HDD compatibility list, especially as there are so few other drives in there.

EXT3 can also only support up to 8TB, so you will need to create multiple RAID volumes if you want to fill it with 1.5TB or 2TB drives. I also have an issue with saying there is a maximum of 10.5TB, as any software that actually tells you how much space you have will actually say a lot less. 9.78TB minus RIAD and file systems would be more accurate.

[aidanjt]

Curious... Since Linux is the kernel being used by Thecus (I'm assuming that's the case, most NAS devices are), then how were they able to use ZFS?.. I hope they're not using the FUSE module.