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Anybody know how big a volume I can create with Radiator 4.2.31?
I've got these Western Digital 6TB gold drives (please see attached file).
Here's the thing. If I let the ReadyNas 2100 create an X-Raid2 volume it uses up all of the space, and then it says the freshly created volume is 100% full, I can't do anything with it. No error state, just inaccessible.
So I switched to Flex-Raid so I can make individual volumes.
Again, if I let it make a volume this big (16631066 MB, and it takes 24 hrs to do it), it comes back with the volume being 100% full, can't do anything with it. No error state - it just says 100% full. It's in error.
So I deleted that and created Raid 0 volume using all 5718556 MB of channel 1. It works! There's a drive c, I can put a share on it and save files and everything.
So I made another Raid 0 volume using all 5718556 MB of channel 2, drive d. Works great.
So my question, and I know people have said all over the place that the maximum size is 16TB, but TB doesn't mean anything to Raidiator.
What I need to know is how many MB I can use to make a Raid 5 volume, what is the biggest size.
I want to know "what number can I type into the box" and if you look you'll see it doesn't say TB, it's asking how many MB to make.
It is going to take 24 hrs to create this volume, I can tell you that. If I get it wrong not only do all the disks crank away for 24 hrs straight, but then I get to delete the volume and start all over again with another number.
*PLEASE* do not reply to this request with "Gee I don't know" that's of no use to me.
I just want a response from the one person who knows, what number can I type in there that's as big as possible and is going to work.
No guesses: I want the real number.
And I already know some of you guys think 16TB means 16,000,000 MB and some of you think it means 16,777,216 MB and some of you think no it's 16TB including the overhead which is roughly 1/3 of the desired volume size so that should be 12,000,000 MB or so.
Lots of people think lots of different things. I only want to know, what's the real number that's going to work.
Thanks everybody for your advice.
The final number: 16,273,912 MB is what you would put in. That's including "10 GB" for snapshots, although I think the software is in error, I think that really means "10 %" for snapshots.
(If you put 16,273,913 MB that is the smallest size that is too big to be created into a successful volume.)
For ReadyNas 2100 v1 running Raidiator 4.2.31.
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Do you have the 2100 V1 or the 2100 V2?
16TB is the expansion limitation. If you create a volume with equal capacity disks in place you should be able to create a larger volume. You just can't expand an existing 12TB volume past 16TB to say 18TB.
4x6 TB disks would result in an 18 TB (16.4 TiB) volume. As mdgm says, that ought to work in a 4.2.x ReadyNAS - though you wouldn't be able to expand it. What firmware are you running?
The 2100v1 has a 32 bit architecture, so it might be more limited than the v2.
FWIW, building the RAID array takes the same amount of time for an empty volume as it takes for a full one. RAID works at the raw block level (creating a virtual disk), and the parity blocks need to be built for every data stripe (even when the disk is empty).
Hi guys it's ReadyNas 2100 v1 running Raidiator 4.2.31.
Attached, see what it does if I say 12000000 MB.
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