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Discrepancy bvetween actual size vice advertised size
Hello....Just purchased and set up a READYNAS 214 D4 8 TB NAS. Screen shows only 5.4 TB data usable. Other ReadyNAS 214 has 8 TB drive capacity and in RAID 5 configuration. Is there a step I asm m...
There are some things you are missing information wise, not step wise.
The first is that the default configuration is XRAID, which uses one of your drives for redundancy. That cuts you down to 6TB. The second is that the NAS and Windows report space in TiB (powers of 1024) and drive manufacturers report size in TB (powers of 1000). The bigger drives get, the more that difference in the math is noticable. Lastly, there is overhead for formatting and the OS partition.
The end result is that you have the correct amount of usable space from 4 x 2TB drives and the default configuration. If you so desire, you can re-configure for JBOD or RAID0 and get full use of all drives (about 7.3TiB) with no redundancy. To do that' you have to turn off XRAID, destroy the current volume, and create a new one manually.
I don't understand your reference to "Other ReadyNAS 214".
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