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Missing over 4TB on my ReadyNAS 316
ReadyNAS 316
Firmware - 6.9.5 (current as of this post)
Snapshots have been disabled
I am missing over 4TB of storage space and I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out where it went. ...
KaizerSose wrote:
I have five 3TB disks in RAID5 for a total capacity of around 13.6TB.
With 5 disks, the raw disk capacity is 15 TB (13.6 TiB) The volume size is 12 TB (shown by the Web UI as 10.9 TiB). Did you really mean 6 disks?
Do you know about how old your data volume is?
Do you have volume quota enabled on the NAS? If not, try enabling that. Then you can compare the space shown in the web ui for each share with the amount you've seeing in Windows.
Also I suggest downloading the full log zip file from the log page in the web ui. You can double-check snapshots by looking in snapper.log
You might also want to run a balance (which you do from the volume settings wheel on the volume page).
Stephen,
Wow, good catch my friend, I did indeed mean six disks, not five. Thank you for your quick reply!
The data volume is probably three years old, give or take a few months in either direction.
I do not have quotas enabled, but that is a good suggestion. I am going to go enable them now.
Thanks for the full log tip, going to go check that out too.
I ran a defrag the other night, took I think around 10 hours to complete but did free up about 200GB. I haven't run a balance yet, but now that you've suggested it, I'm going to go do it.
Again, genuinely appreciate your feedback and suggestions!
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