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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...
To repeat what mdgm said (in a different way...) -
jabberwockie wrote: ok -so how do I maximize the disks that I have to get beyond 13 tb?
The array you have now is already 16 TB in size. The NAS (and windows) uses TiB, but calls it TB. 1 TiB is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, so it is larger than 1 TB (1000*1000*1000 bytes). So if you use TiB units ,the volume is only 13 TiB.
It's the same amount of space, just reported in different units of measure.
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