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Ready NAS316 capacity
I have 2 x 12TB Hard disks and 4 x 6TB hard drives,
Acknolwedges 12TB HD as 10.9 TB capacity but the whole volume only reads 27.27 TB.
netgear raid calculator says it should read 32.7 TB.
Any ideas?
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Re: Ready NAS316 capacity
Are you using X-Raid = 32.7 TiB or Flex-Raid, RAID 5 = 27.2 TiB ?
Best switch to X-Raid I think using Admin Page System: Volumes
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Re: Ready NAS316 capacity
Hello Am using X-Raid
Firmware is 6.9.1
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Re: Ready NAS316 capacity
Did you reboot the NAS after the 12 TB drives synced? Usually that is needed to trigger vertical expansion.
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Re: Ready NAS316 capacity
This is a fresh install due to chassis replacement
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Try rebooting, and see if that triggers expansion.
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So. Have set nas 316 back to factory default, upon restart creates one x-raid volume raid 5. All Hard drives are on the approved compatabily list. Hard drives in the order 2x 12b and 4x 6TB but still reads 27.27 TB
System currently resyncing.
Any ideas,
Thanks
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Re: Ready NAS316 capacity
@DSRedman wrote:
So. Have set nas 316 back to factory default, upon restart creates one x-raid volume raid 5. All Hard drives are on the approved compatabily list. Hard drives in the order 2x 12b and 4x 6TB but still reads 27.27 TB
Any ideas,
When you have drives of different sizes, the NAS first creates a base RAID group that spans all disks, using the smallest disk size. In this case that is 6x6TB RAID-5. That is a 30 TB volume (or ~27.3 TiB).
After that completes, the system will create a second raid group on the larger disks - in this case 2x6TB RAID-1. That second raid group is merged into file system.
Creation of that second RAID group is called vertical expansion. You needed to reboot the NAS in order to start that step. Doing the reset just wasted time - starting the whole process over.
That is why we suggested that you reboot the NAS when the initial sync was complete.
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