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Readynas 104 HDD
Hi all,
Ive got a readynas 104 with 3, 4tb HDDs.. but my available storage is only 8tb .. i have a feeling its beause of raid 5... any way to change this to access the remaining 4tb?
Tha...
Hi editnev
Welcome to the Community!
You are correct it is because of RAID5, the 4TB disk space is being used as protection for your data in the event of one disk failure you will still be able to have access on your data. If you want to use it it as space for your data then you will have to change the RAID type you have. You can setup JBOD (Just a bunch of disks) which creates one volume per disk or use RAID0 which distributes data across multiple disks, resulting in improved disk performance. This RAID types though does not offer any protection to your data so any disk failure will result in data loss.
You will have to change from X-RAID to Flex-RAID first then destroy your current volume and create a new one.
Here are the guides for that.
Personally I would prefer having protection on my RAID.
Hope this helps!
Regards
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