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iSCSI LUN - Unable to use all available disk space
Hello, We have a ReadyNAS 316 Diskless Model that we purchased and added 6 x 6 TB Western Digital Red Hard Drives (compatible as per HCL). A new RAID 0 volume has been created providing us with ...
There are two related answers.
Netgear don't support creating partition-based iSCSI volumes, which would resolve this problem AND give better performance. They use file-based iSCSI containers.
Netgear also force you to use BTRFS as the file system. This pretty new file system can behave super bad when filled up (for example with a huge iSCSI file). So they limit volume creation, effectively forbidding you from using 10% of the storage you paid for.
So, in short: Netgear's choices have led to this situation. Of course it's unacceptable but what can you do, except choose other products.
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