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XRaid and Storage Size ??
Hi All.
I am new to ReadyNAS and have moved from a HP Microserver running WHS2011
I have added 4 1TB HD's and am now waiting for an enternity for it to 'resync', something i am not liking about this setup already !!
When reading the instructions, it explains that using XRaid means the storage capacity will be the size of your hard drives minus 1 hard drive.
This should mean i will have 3TB of storage, yet at the moment it is only saying 924.86GB and it has stayed at that amount for a good few hours.
Should i get 3TB of storage?
Any advice much appreciated
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Hello waynerp,
With 4x1TB, it should be around 3TB, you can use RAID calculator for checking volume capacity of combined sizes of disks in a RAID.
Did you just add disk to existing RAID or all are new?
If this is your initial setup and the disks are new, they all should be empty with no partitions. It is better inserting them all at the same time then factory reset the NAS to let the NAS format the disks and start building the volume with the disks at the same time.
Regards,
Hi
Thanks for reply
The 4 disks were the ones i previuosly used in my old NAS. I did a quick format of all the disks in windows and inserted 2 disks first, the the other 2 1 by 1.
Hello waynerp.
If that is the case then this means the disks do not have files anymore.
If it is taking too long which I think it is because it seems it is doing it with one disk at a time, try doing the factory reset from the boot menu while the disks are inserted. Doing this will allow the NAS to format all the disks and install the OS to the disks.
Regards,
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