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My Experience with NVX BE and 4x WD60EFRX 6TB Drives
All, I recently decided to upgrade my trusty NVX Business Edition ReadyNAS from 4x 1TB drives to 4x 6TB drives. After reading many posts on these forums I quickly realised that 6TB drives were not ...
@mdgm - thanks for your help.
Taking your comment and the advice given by StephenB, the default available volume size after overheads and snapshot allocation did just creep above the 16TiB limit.
I have created a volume within Frontview of 16000000MB which appears to have worked (currently resyncing). Assuming the ReadyNAS definition of MB is MiB then I think this is the maximum volume size I can create.
I guess I am lucky in that I am only loosing a few 100GBs as the available space after overheads is around the 16TB limit using 4x 6TB drives.
Thanks for your help.
Buzz.
Taking your comment and the advice given by StephenB, the default available volume size after overheads and snapshot allocation did just creep above the 16TiB limit.
I have created a volume within Frontview of 16000000MB which appears to have worked (currently resyncing). Assuming the ReadyNAS definition of MB is MiB then I think this is the maximum volume size I can create.
I guess I am lucky in that I am only loosing a few 100GBs as the available space after overheads is around the 16TB limit using 4x 6TB drives.
Thanks for your help.
Buzz.
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