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shb367
Mar 19, 2013Aspirant
NV+ extra disk cacacity..
Hi there I have just recently bought a Readynas NV+. It came with the factory fitted 4x250gb hard drives. I have removed these and put in a 1.5tb and 1tb. (I also have 2x500gb to add at a later da...
techman05
Mar 21, 2013Guide
shb367 wrote:
I have removed these and put in a 1.5tb and 1tb. (I also have 2x500gb to add at a later date). I done a factory reset and after the hd’s have initialised it shows only around 927gb of storage available.
The storage is only as big a the smallest like when you hike minus formatting. Its showing the size available expanded to the 1tb size. If you had 2 1.5 it would be that minus formatting.
Doing separate drives is probably the only way to get the full 12 tbs (if you have 4 3 Tb drives) and 6 otherwise. I'm pretty sure though 3 will make the 3rd a scratch drive and make more of a speed difference than drive increase.
BTW those 500GB's probably won't work since the minimum you started with is the 1Tb and the new drives have to greater than or equal to that. I bought bigger drives for my computer and tried to use the 250GB drive I removed and got that error.
Hope that helps.
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