Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB

zxgates@cox.net wrote:

Hi all, Installed 4.1.4 for the 1.5tb drive support, but I probably did something wrong as I'm not getting the full capacity of the drives. Have 3 1.5 TB drives, all show up in NV as such. 2 show a capacity of 1.5tb and 1 drive shows a capacity of 652MB. Total available space is 652MB (733MB under Windows explorer). I tried moving the drives around to see if the would force an expansion, but no luck. Is there something I need to do to force an "expansion" or "initialize" the disks to get the full 3TB that should be online? Thank you! (Some background: Before installing the 4.1.4 version, I installed 1 drive which gave the 652MB capacity (maybe this caused the problem?). Then installed the other 2 drives and the blue power light just blinked slowly for about a day, then faster after that, but the NV never came up. After installing 4.1.4, NV comes up with the above noted capacity of 652MB, even through the device sees all three drives)

How many 1.5tb drives do you have installed? It's you only have 3 of them installed and say your 4th drive is a 750gb you will only get use of the extra space on the drives once you install a 4th 1.5tb drive. I could be wrong but the way I understood it you will only get to use the size of the smallest drive in your readynas. So three 1.5tbs and 1 750gb is basicly still like having 4 750gb drives until you add the 4th.