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jelockwood1
Dec 13, 2011Guide
4TB hard disks
It is early days yet but 4TB disks are starting to trickle on to the market. I am aware so far of two different makes being launched they being Seagate and Hitachi. Hitachi at least have now made a ki...
Emlcombo
Apr 02, 2013Aspirant
Ok. So just for utter clarification. Let me see if I have everything correct.
You are saying that b/c of the expansion limitations (which is 8tb), that if you start out with 5x4tb drives and then try to increase that to 6x4tb drives later, you will only have a total of 14(ish)tb worth or usable space. Which would leave you with RAID 5 with 2 Parity disks?
But if you want to start out with 18(ish)tb of usable space with 1 Parity disk then you need start out with all 6 disk in place?
You are saying that b/c of the expansion limitations (which is 8tb), that if you start out with 5x4tb drives and then try to increase that to 6x4tb drives later, you will only have a total of 14(ish)tb worth or usable space. Which would leave you with RAID 5 with 2 Parity disks?
But if you want to start out with 18(ish)tb of usable space with 1 Parity disk then you need start out with all 6 disk in place?
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