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Readynas Pro 6 Disk space question
Hi, I have read several post that have talked about 16tb limit and a 18tb limit but still not sure why I'm only showing 13tb with my 6 x 3 tb drives installed. 1) put in 6 x 3tb drives 2) did a fac...
18TB limit?
There is a 16TB limit. You can't expand a volume past 16TB on 4.2.x. To get a volume larger than 16TB on 4.2.x you have to do a factory default with your drives in place. If you need a larger volume again you will need to do another factory default with the drives in place.
What version of RAIDiator are you running?
Note OS6 is not affected by the 16TB limit.
That 13TB is the volume capacity rounded down to the nearest TB. Note that disk manufacturers measure with 1000 Bytes = 1KB whereas the NAS uses 1024 Bytes = 1KB
So (6-1) * 3 * 1000^4 / 1024^4 = 13.64. After allowing for overheads and rounding down you get 13TB.
There is a 16TB limit. You can't expand a volume past 16TB on 4.2.x. To get a volume larger than 16TB on 4.2.x you have to do a factory default with your drives in place. If you need a larger volume again you will need to do another factory default with the drives in place.
What version of RAIDiator are you running?
Note OS6 is not affected by the 16TB limit.
That 13TB is the volume capacity rounded down to the nearest TB. Note that disk manufacturers measure with 1000 Bytes = 1KB whereas the NAS uses 1024 Bytes = 1KB
So (6-1) * 3 * 1000^4 / 1024^4 = 13.64. After allowing for overheads and rounding down you get 13TB.
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