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pgjscottieuk
Mar 13, 2017Guide
Missing Storage Readynas 516
I am running my 516 nas with 6 x 4TB hard drives = 24TB in XRAID RAID 5 My NAS tells me i have 10.11TB Free Space Used Data 4.33TB i thought 24TB's in Raid 5 would give me 20TB space I started of w...
- Mar 15, 2017
After a Resync the volume has now expanded showing correct size 18.07TB instead of 14.43
jak0lantash
Mar 17, 2017Mentor
Please download the logs and paste the content of mdstat.log so i can double check. But 6x2TB in RAID5 showing 8.15TB of capacity seems correct.
You need to remove the capacity of one disk because of the RAID5, then count the difference between Terabytes and Tebibytes (wikipedia), then count that 4.5GB on each disk is used by the system, finally consider the filesystem overhead.
You need to remove the capacity of one disk because of the RAID5, then count the difference between Terabytes and Tebibytes (wikipedia), then count that 4.5GB on each disk is used by the system, finally consider the filesystem overhead.
- FishbonesMar 17, 2017Tutor
As requested....
rdcalculator indicates 9.06TiB
Thanks for the help.
Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md126 : active raid5 sda4[0] sde4[5](S) sdf4[6] sdd4[4] sdc4[2] sdb4[3] 3906491648 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU] md127 : active raid5 sda3[0] sdf3[9] sde3[8] sdd3[7] sdc3[2] sdb3[6] 4859553920 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU] md1 : active raid6 sda2[0] sdf2[5] sde2[4] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1] 2093056 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU] md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdf1[9] sde1[8] sdd1[7] sdc1[2] sdb1[6] 4190208 blocks super 1.2 [6/6] [UUUUUU] unused devices: <none>
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