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Rubatoguy
Mar 15, 2013Aspirant
Ultra Nas 6 with 3 WD 3TB drives only shows 5.5TB
Hello, I just got an Ultra Nas 6 to replace my NV+ and have equipped it with 3 WD red 3tb drives, however, rather than somewhere near 9TB available, it only shows 5.5TB available.... That seems like...
mdgm-ntgr
Mar 16, 2013NETGEAR Employee Retired
If you were to install 6x3TB drives I would recommend using dual-redundancy (if any two disks data remains intact) rather than single-redundancy. Though backups are still required (of course), the extra protection that RAID-6 offers is well worth it.
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