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RN104 WD Red 6TB Drive
Hi Everyone.
I've been slowly replacing my hard drives with the Western Digital 6 TB drives in my Ready NAS 104 storage system with the last one being added over the weekend. This morning when the "resync" process finished I was shown only 12.72 TB of storage and 4.26 TB free. I wasn't expecting that so ran a quick defrag, it completed, and it is still the same. I have about 8 TB of data (Movies, Music, etc) so did not expect that to change. However, with 24 TB of raw storage I wasn't expecting X-Raid to take that much or am I missing something?
I am running 6.4.2 firmware which I believe reduces the 16TB limit. Is this expected behavior or do I have to rebuild it in order bypass the limits? I've owened the array since it was released and slowly upgraded the drives. Originally I was using WD 2 TB reds, then swapped to 4's, then recently 6's. I was sort of hoping to get closer to 16 - 18 TB..
Ok, the resync finished. What a huge difference and more inline with what I was expecting. I now have 8 TB free out of a 16.3 TB. Not too bad. May have not been the best choice of $ per TB but all in all I can't complain. I bought the drives over time. Thanks again for taking a look at the problem. It appears to be resolved.
With regards to upgrading, I'll be adding it to my budget and plan. I still have a bit of homework to do but it would be great if I could just buy a new chassis like you noted, RN214, shutdown my existing unit, remove drives, insert into the new RN214, and pick up where I left off. That would be pretty slick. The only thing I didn't like about the 214 is that I was concerned about the ARM processor.
It looks like the Rn214 is the top end right now for typical home use whereas the rest are for business. Either way, I'm still sold on the unit and I can't thank you enough. Super nice.
THANKS!
-scott
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If you have 4x6TB installed, the volume size should be 18 TB (~16.3 TiB). There is no expansion limit with OS6.
That is what I also thought, and was sort of expecting. However, after all is done it is showing 4.3 TB free of 12.7 TB.
Ok, I'll have to dig around then. Only thing I can think of is that it is reporting all is done rebuilding and syncing but it really isn't.
Can you send me your logs (see the Sending Logs link in my sig)?
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