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Why is Volume Size below calculated?
Hi, I just had to rebuild a chassis (EDA500) from scratch. I did the following: 1. Powered down. 2. Removed drives 3. Deleted partitions 4. Inserted drives 5. Powered on 6. Selected new...
- That's fine.
If you don't have any unused drive in the chassis and only one volume per chassis, then turn on X-RAID, and your volume should expand (vertical expansion).
The difference come from confusing decimal and binary prefixes. Harddisk manufactures prefer decimal, your NAS is using binary.
| Prefixes for multiples of bits (bit) or bytes (B)
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Thanks. I get the reasoning you mentioned, but the difference is very large and even larger on the EDA500 than that of the DATA volume. And, my other EDA500 with 3-3-3-3-3 is actually larger...
That doesn't add up to me.
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