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Confused by free space Netgear104 in Raid5
I have a Netgear104 which has 4*2TB drives in it and is set to be running in RAID5. According to all Raid calculators this suggests I should have ~5.5 TB usable space and this is confirmed by RAIDar as below so shows I should have 3.5TB free space as I have 1.8TB of files.
However, Explorer etc only reports 18Mb free at present and copying more data to the share reports diskfull.
What do I need to do to get the free space and make it usable or have I just made a fundamental mistake?
cirks wrote:
I have a Netgear104 which has 4*2TB drives in it and is set to be running in RAID5. According to all Raid calculators this suggests I should have ~5.5 TB usable space and this is confirmed by RAIDar as below so shows I should have 3.5TB free space as I have 1.8TB of files.
However, Explorer etc only reports 18Mb free at present and copying more data to the share reports diskfull.
What do I need to do to get the free space and make it usable or have I just made a fundamental mistake?Your second screenshot looks like a local disk, and not a mapped network drive/share.
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cirks wrote:
I have a Netgear104 which has 4*2TB drives in it and is set to be running in RAID5. According to all Raid calculators this suggests I should have ~5.5 TB usable space and this is confirmed by RAIDar as below so shows I should have 3.5TB free space as I have 1.8TB of files.
However, Explorer etc only reports 18Mb free at present and copying more data to the share reports diskfull.
What do I need to do to get the free space and make it usable or have I just made a fundamental mistake?Your second screenshot looks like a local disk, and not a mapped network drive/share.
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