NV+ V2 stalling when 80%+ full (20047616)

f1arp72 wrote:

Just another quick question. I initially have 2 x 4TB drives in the unit. Now the sync has completed (using XRaid2), it says I have 2.65TB or 2.70TB free. I'm pretty sure when I bought the unit which was running on 5.3.6 firmware, after initial sync I had the full 2.70TB free. What's happened to the extra 50GB. Windows 7 even shows a small blue bar showing the used space which is why i noticed it. Is this normal? As mentioned, I'm 99% certain i didn't lose 50GB when I originally set up the NAS out the box.

i would be concerned why it's only showing 2.65-2.70 TB if you've got 2x 4TB drives in it. it should be closer to 3.7, 2.7TB is what you should see if you had 2x3TB drives as XRaid2 with 2 disks is a mirror. logically 1 disk with 1 disk backup. it sounds like your nas is only seeing the first ~3TB of the drives and the change of firmware could indicate that the total drive size visible isn't quite right.

mdgm wrote:
From doing a Google search it sounds like it's the filesystem overhead for EXT4.

even so it was EXT4 on 5.3.6 going to 5.3.8 shouldn't change the overheads of EXT4 i would think. unless netgear are reserving 50GB to help work around the 80% full issue