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sfreemanoh
Sep 26, 2014Tutor
New ReadyNAS 516, defaulting to RAID 5
I just got a new 516 yesterday, and put 5 3TB drives into it. However, when I started the unit up, it's saying that the volume is RAID 5 with only 10.46TB's of storage available, even though XRaid app...
StephenB
Sep 26, 2014Guru - Experienced User
Note the NAS reports volume size in TiB (consistent with windows). This is 1 TiB = 1024*1024*1024*1024 bytes.
If you use power-of-ten (like the disk drive manuafacturers) then your volume size is about 12 TB.
If you use power-of-ten (like the disk drive manuafacturers) then your volume size is about 12 TB.
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