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Adding 4TB - total storage volume not increased
Hi,
We have a Readynas nv+ v2 used for backing up to. It has 4x2TB hdd’s. The NAS has run out of space and I am in process of adding 2 new 4TB drives.
I am adding one drive at the time and have ...
jh75 wrote:
I am adding one drive at the time and have only added 1 drives so far. After adding 1x 4TB drive the storage ‘size’ has not increased – it seems that only 2TB of the new drive is used.
This is normal. The system can't use the full drive space without sacrificing RAID redundancy.
When you add the second disk there will be a second resync and the volume will expand by 2 TB. You likely will be prompted to reboot the NAS half-way through that resync
Sandshark wrote:
Computers were now mainstream, and the old "industry standards" were confusing to the general populous, especially since that extra 24 doesn't actually "add up", it multiplies. The difference was really staring to show with TB=1000x1000x1000x1000 vs. TiB=1024x1024x1024x1024. But except to explain the difference between the size of drives and RAM, the "KiB", "GiB", "TiB", etc. have yet to become commonly used in the electronics industry. 1024 bytes of RAM is still a "K" not a "Ki" pretty much everywhere I look. Microsoft is just following the crowd (or stagnating with it, I suppose), and the confusion persists. Blame old guys (and gals) like me and Bill Gates (though he's out of the game now) for this.
I believe OSX uses 1000 multiples, so confusion continues to abound.
My recollection on the shift went back to the CP/M operating system, which of course was back when dinosaur computers roamed the earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M
I still kind of remember CP/M. I remember screwing with it on my Commodore 128 back in the day. On of a number of Commodore computers I've owned starting with the Vic-20 with a Cassette Tape Drive. Them were the days. Take 20 minutes t load up a program only to have it crash near the end have have to rewind the tape and try again. My first 5-1/4" floppy with my C-64, after using the tape drive with that for a while. My 128 with the 5-1/4" and 3.5" Floppy drives, which I ended up running a BBS on. My 128D, My Amiga 500 and finally getting my first HDD which was a SCSI drive, 5-1/4" Full Height 40 Meg drive. That was pile of money, ended up running my BBS on that. Got a Amiga 1200, Finally went to Windows 95 on a Gateway 2000 computer. My first 3DFX graphic card. These days I'm on a Windows 10 Desktop which I built. It's really pretty Amazing I have a computer the size of my iPhone that's 1000 times more powerful and the 128 Gig's of storage. Tech has moved so fast in such a short period of time. I couldn't dream back then what we would have now. My NAS serving me up hundreds of HD movies anywhere I'm at. with TB's of storage. You just have to think WOW.
My Mac experiance was on my Amiga 500 running a Mac Emulator so that I could run Netscape. Some things never change. Now you have Mac's that can also run Windows. Not so much Emulation, but still,.....
JBDragon1 wrote:
Them were the days. Take 20 minutes t load up a program only to have it crash near the end have have to rewind the tape and try again.
Paper tape was even more fun, especially if you stepped on it while rewinding...
JBDragon1 wrote:
My NAS serving me up hundreds of HD movies anywhere I'm at. with TB's of storage. You just have to think WOW.Very true.
No Paper Tape or Punch Cards for me! Paper Tape is just a continues puch card. That's a little before my time. 50's, 60's. Even earlier for things like to program looms. But as far as personal mainstream home computers goes, it was Cartrages, and Tape Drive. Which my Vic-20 used both. Back then I played with a number of computers, many I don't remember anymore. They didn't last long in the marketplace.
JBDragon1 wrote:
... That's a little before my time. 50's, 60's.
No, they lasted longer than that - just never reached home computers.
Regretfully paper tapes persisted for me up into the 80s. Towards the end they became mylar instead of paper, and you could get a really bad cut if you mishandled the power-rewinder. These were used in a diskless minicomputer that was part of a medical patient monitoring system (no flash boot back then).
My life with punch cards ended in the mid-70s (when I stopped using IBM 370 mainframes).
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