Are these new 5 and 6TB drives the helium filled ones? As I've heard they don't like being in NAS environments due to heat etc..
I lost the main storage on my N54L at the weekend and have rebuilt it to 2012R2 and copied everything back.
I was using single instance storage on the 2008R2 box but that was only down to the file level - on 2012R2 I've configured a new Storage Space across the 4x 2TB disks and enabled dedupe which now works on blocks for files above 32KB.
I was seeing minimal savings before but so far (it's still running as the 5.5TB data copy took 21 hours) it's saved me almost 300GB.
Very happy so far with that!
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