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Have two times 1tb in plus a 4tb 3 drives in total 6tb in total nothing on them just put the 4tb in new gone through its set up but is only giving me available space of 1.8 tb surely this isnt correc...
PUT IN ANOTHER 4TB MAKING 2X1TB & 2X4TB MAKING A TOTAL 10 SET UP IN RAID 0 STILL SAYING I ONLY HAVE 3.61 AVAILABLE WHY?
Hi Daveswift7
Welcome to the Community!
Since you used Flex-RAID RAID 0 configuration the volume capacity is being limited bythe smallest disk (1TB) making it look like 1TBx4 with 3.63TiB Capacity and 5.46TiB Unused. But in Flex-RAID mode, you can utilize the leftover space on the 4TB disks you have (5.46TiB) by creating another volume. But with X-RAID RAID 5 configuration it will expand automatically to utilize the capacity of the 4TB disks.
We recommend using X-RAID to fully utilize and create redundancy.
Here is a KB about that
Hope this helps!
Regards
I agree that XRAID is a better choice for most users.
Using RAID-0 to span multiple disks is very risky - if any disk fails, you lose all the data on all disks. If you want to maximize space (and not have any RAID protection) then you are better off creating one volume for each disk - putting some shares on each. Then only the data on the failed disk is lost.
When that happens, you
- destroy the failed volume
- insert a new disk, and recreate the volume on it.
- reconfigure the shares that were on that volume
- restore the data from your backup.
CAN YOU TELL ME HOW TO SET IT UP AS SEPERATE VOLUMES THEN PLEASE HAS THE VOLUME BUTTON DOES NOT SHOW
Hi Daveswift7
You may want to check this article.
https://kb.netgear.com/23131/How-do-I-create-a-volume-on-my-ReadyNAS-OS-6-storage-system
Regards
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