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GaRFIELD1
Mar 26, 2013Aspirant
4TB disks on ReadyNas Ultra 6?
I just bought a ReadyNAS ULTRA 6 for a great price of less than USD 600,- including a 2TB Seagate disk. Waste of space with only 1 x 2TB, so need to get some new disks... The plan was to fill it up w...
mdgm-ntgr
May 23, 2013NETGEAR Employee Retired
fifer55 Mac OS X is using a different base for calculating the Volume Capacity than the ReadyNAS uses. It is still the same amount of space. Your NAS is using Base 2 whereas your Mac is using Base 10. See the X-RAID Volume Size Calculator link in my sig
Your Mac would consider e.g. 1KB = 1000 Bytes, whereas the NAS considers 1KB = 1024 Bytes.
Your Mac would consider e.g. 1KB = 1000 Bytes, whereas the NAS considers 1KB = 1024 Bytes.
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