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neildeadman
May 23, 2013Follower
Replace drives in RN104
I have just bought a RN104 4-bay diskless NAS. I already had some 500GB disks so I put them in, which gave me around 900GB usable space. In my existing PC I had a 1.5TB disk which I have moved the con...
deadjoker
May 24, 2013Aspirant
I think that's depend on raid mode you created; assume you added 3*500G in, there's only around 900G ( (3-1)*500G ) usable space, because left space is reserved as redundent protect. If you add 4th 1.5T disk in, I am afraid the avaliable space will not be changed.
But if you replaced all disks with 2T, that means
3*2T --> (3-1) * 2T = 4T
4*2T --> (4-2) * 2T = 4T
But if you replaced all disks with 2T, that means
3*2T --> (3-1) * 2T = 4T
4*2T --> (4-2) * 2T = 4T
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