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Use NEW RAID calc to see how XRAID can maximize capacity
Do you want to know how XRAID can maximize capacity without having to fully understand all technical details of RAID? Try this new RAID calculator: http://www.netgear.com/RAIDtool.
To be fair here - I answer lots of questions here on RAID capacity (along with a few other folks). All of us are using the same formulas as http://www.netgear.com/RAIDtool. The main difference is that I always include both TiB and TB units, since that is a major source of confusion. I usually add a caveat that the OS partition and other overhead will reduce the actual capacity somewhat.
chirpa wrote: Not accurate to real world numbers, uses the marketing numbers...
I'm ok with ignoring the overhead myself - as disks get bigger it matters less and less. I think its very important to have both TiB and TB reported.
Properly handling the limitations for the various NAS would be ideal, but the Koss tool doesn't do that either.
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