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added 3x8tb but only showing 7.27tb of data
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Hi,
I just finished building a new nas setup and intially started with 2x8tb drives. I undestand that in Raid 1 the drives are mirrored so I get a 1:1 copy and have only 8tb visible (7.3tb after formatting etc). But after adding a third drive and moving to Raid5, I am still only seeing the initial 8tb and not 16tb. Is this correct?
The drives are currently resyncing after adding the third - will it add the additional 8tb after it finishes and am i being impatient or have I done something wrong?
Thanks.
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Re: added 3x8tb but only showing 7.27tb of data
Thank you. Ill report back in around 45hrs.
Also. my readynas dashboard reports it as TB so I was just quoting that - I didnt know about TiB so ill be doing some reading! thank you!
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Re: added 3x8tb but only showing 7.27tb of data
@Kebabish wrote:
Also. my readynas dashboard reports it as TB
No. The label is TB (1000*1000*1000*1000 bytes) but it actually is TiB (1024*1024*1024*1024 bytes).
8 TB is actually 7.27 TiB. Google will convert the units (try typing "8 TB in TiB").
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Re: added 3x8tb but only showing 7.27tb of data
Hi,
drives are finally added and I can see my storage now. Exactly as you said 14.54TiB now available for data storage and the remaing reserved as redundancy.
Thanks for your help!
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Re: added 3x8tb but only showing 7.27tb of data
Thanks for following up!