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Maximum Volume Size vs TIme Machine Maximum Size
I recently set up my ReadyNAS 314 with 4 Seagate Ironwolf 6TB (ST6000VN0041) hard drives. I am running ReadyNAS OS 6, Firmware 6.6.0. As you can see in the attached screenshots, the maximum stora...
Thank you for pointing that out. I suppose the issue then is should Netgear correct the label for the units on the volume page to reflect the proper units, in this case, they are "TiB" and not "TB" as it is currently stated and update the TM units to also be TiB or GiB for consistency throughout the device.
Most PCs call it TB when they are using TiB. Disk manufacturers use TB and call it TB. It can be a bit confusing at first and if we said TiB people would contact us wondering what TiB is.
mdgm wrote:
Most PCs call it TB when they are using TiB. Disk manufacturers use TB and call it TB. It can be a bit confusing at first and if we said TiB people would contact us wondering what TiB is.
Instead people keep asking why their 4x4TB config only has 10.9 TB of storage. It's confusing no matter what you do, but if you use TiB anyone googling would get reasonable answers.
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