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RN204: 2x 4TB and 1x 2TB and 1x 3 TB - Not able to use full capacity
OS: 6.4.1 Hello, I spent a lot of hours till now to bring it together without success. The netgear RAID calculator says 8.16 TB in X-Raid and Flex-Raid 5 with my combination of HDDs but I'm n...
That's excactly what I expected how it's working when buying the RN204. But this device is now on it's way back to Amazon and my new QNAP 431+ is initializing the disks right now!
Thanks all for your help!
Yes I know but i would like to work with the HDDs I have and the calculator says >8TB -> http://rdconfigurator.netgear.com/raid/index.html
Is the calculator working wrong?
I was not able to find in documentation that encryption impacts the way X-Raid / Flex-Raid is working. So Netgear please let me know if encryption is the problem, the calculator is wrong or what I have to do to get it running with 8 TB!
Thanks!
That calculator is showing the wrong value for Flex-RAID for your selection of disks. The traditional RAID-5 is showing the correct volume capacity.
mdgm wrote:
That calculator is showing the wrong value for Flex-RAID for your selection of disks. The traditional RAID-5 is showing the correct volume capacity.
Yes.
Also if you were to start over with xraid you would get a 9 TB volume (~8.18 TiB). But to do that you'd need to back all your data, do a factory reset, rebuild the NAS, and then restore the data from the backup.
> Also if you were to start over with xraid you would get a 9 TB volume (~8.18 TiB). But to do that you'd need to back all your data, do a factory reset, rebuild the NAS, and then restore the data from the backup.
But this means there is no way to get an encrypted 9 TB volume because it's not supported by X-Raid?
Right?
whether u use raid 5 or 6 or 10 u still need backup
redundancy is good if you store dynamic data but if you store static data such as video or music files jbod with separate backup is good enough
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