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ReadyNAS 2304 not showing all available storage
I have 4 hard drives installed in my ReadyNAS 2304 (OS 6). 2tb, 4tb, 2tb, 4tb - in that order. I don't care much for redundancy, instead all I want is to be able to access 12tb via one volume. I'm moving over from a Terramaster NAS, which allowed me to do that using RAID0. When I select RAID0 in my ReadyNAS, I only see 7.26tb out of the 12tb. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong or what else I should be trying?
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks.
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zr604 wrote:
I have 4 hard drives installed in my ReadyNAS 2304 (OS 6). 2tb, 4tb, 2tb, 4tb - in that order. When I select RAID0 in my ReadyNAS, I only see 7.26tb out of the 12tb. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong
RAID0 is striped across the 4 drives to maximize performance, so it requires drives of equal size. So you are getting 8 TB (7.26 TiB). FWIW, 12 TB will be reported as ~10.9 TiB.
Try creating a RAID0 volume on the two 2TB drives, and then concatenate a second RAID0 group using the two 4 TB drives.
Thanks for that! that worked, however when I connect to the NAS via SMB, I only see the 4tb combo (2 x 2tb) and not the 8tb combo. Am I supposed to do anything after creating the two separate volumes?
Thanks!
zr604 wrote:
Thanks for that! that worked, however when I connect to the NAS via SMB, I only see the 4tb combo (2 x 2tb) and not the 8tb combo. Am I supposed to do anything after creating the two separate volumes?
I didn't say create two volumes. I said create a second RAID0 group and concatenate it to the existing volume. You'd do that by selecting "add group" on the first volume and selecting the two 4 TB disks.
However, if you are ok with two RAID0 volumes, you can just create some shares on each.
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