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Aspirant

Sep 18, 2015

help with netgear 104

i have installed about 9 tb of hard space on my new nas and it only shows i have 4.53 avaliable why

Aspirant

Sep 18, 2015

i have a4tb by wd a 3tb by wd and 2x 1 tb by wd

Aspirant

Sep 18, 2015

oops one is a seagate 1 tb not a wd

mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Sep 18, 2015
That volume capacity is correct.

If you replace one of the 1TB disks with a 4TB one you will see some expansion.
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Sep 18, 2015
  mdgm wrote:
  
  If you replace one of the 1TB disks with a 4TB one you will see some expansion.
  
  That would increase the storage by 3 TB to 8 TB total (~7.3 TiB).
  
  Your current setup wastes 1 TB on the 4 TB drive - you need at least 2 of the largest size to maximize space.

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