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6 drives, 2x3tb 4x2tb, 3tb show as 2tb WTF
Hey All. Okay, just set this thing up, updated the firmware, etc. Disks are: 3tb 3tb 2tb 2tb 2tb 2tb It is set up as Raid Level X-Raid2 6 disks. But for some reason the volumes of ...
Note for your setup your 3 TB will be useless until you get another 3 TB drive because of the dual redundancy (XRAID6) you need 3 disks of each drive size to live up to the statement "dual redundancy"
In your current setup you have 3,3,2,2,2,2. If you lose a 2 TB disk your okay another, 2 TB drive will cover it. If you lose a 3 TB drive disk nothing can cover it and live up to the statement that you have dual redundancy in the case that you lose any disk. Get another disk of 3 TB in size or replace (vertical expand) one of your 2 TB drive with another 3 TB drive. Im not sure if you have another slot for an extra disk so verticle expansion is possibly all you have left to deal with. There is nothing wrong with your NAS its reacting the way it was designed to react to minimize damage to data and to increase reliability.
Here look at the results from here:
http://www.kossboss.com/volsizecalcsite
Single Disk Redundancy
Disk Space with Raid 5 [base 10]: 11000.000 GB = 11.000 TB
Final Useable/Filesystem Size with Raid 5 [base 2]: 10172.736 GB = 10.093 TB
Dual Disk Redundancy
Disk Space with Raid 6 [base 10]: 8000.000 GB = 8.000 TB
Final Useable/Filesystem Size with Raid 6 [base 2] : 7391.003 GB = 7.333 TB
*** You should have 7.333 TB about ***
In your current setup you have 3,3,2,2,2,2. If you lose a 2 TB disk your okay another, 2 TB drive will cover it. If you lose a 3 TB drive disk nothing can cover it and live up to the statement that you have dual redundancy in the case that you lose any disk. Get another disk of 3 TB in size or replace (vertical expand) one of your 2 TB drive with another 3 TB drive. Im not sure if you have another slot for an extra disk so verticle expansion is possibly all you have left to deal with. There is nothing wrong with your NAS its reacting the way it was designed to react to minimize damage to data and to increase reliability.
Here look at the results from here:
http://www.kossboss.com/volsizecalcsite
Single Disk Redundancy
Disk Space with Raid 5 [base 10]: 11000.000 GB = 11.000 TB
Final Useable/Filesystem Size with Raid 5 [base 2]: 10172.736 GB = 10.093 TB
Dual Disk Redundancy
Disk Space with Raid 6 [base 10]: 8000.000 GB = 8.000 TB
Final Useable/Filesystem Size with Raid 6 [base 2] : 7391.003 GB = 7.333 TB
*** You should have 7.333 TB about ***
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