Joseph Dinsdale
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- Apr 23, 2015
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Hi all,
I am currently in the proses of needing to build a new storage solution, I will be making a new topic about this later. For now I am testing out the FreeNAS software on a VM machine.
I have given the VM 5 hard drives, 1 that has FreeNAS installed and the other 4 are 4GB each, just to run a small test with.
I want to create 2 volumes. one called test1 and the other called test2. Each volume I will add 2 of the 4GB hard drives and put them in stripe raid.
im no expert in raids and what they all do but I have 3 small home NAS's and each of those are in strip raid with 2 4TB hard drives in them, so the give me 8TB each.
So from what i do know about raids is that strip raid gives increased performance and uses the storage space of each hard drive that is in the raid, that's why in my current NAS's i have 8TB storage and not less.
But using FreeNAS on this VM when I go to create a volume I add the 2 4GB hard drives and set it to Stripped raid. after the set-up of the volume, it shows as only having 4GB of space? why is this, should it not show up as having 8GB of space?
I am currently in the proses of needing to build a new storage solution, I will be making a new topic about this later. For now I am testing out the FreeNAS software on a VM machine.
I have given the VM 5 hard drives, 1 that has FreeNAS installed and the other 4 are 4GB each, just to run a small test with.
I want to create 2 volumes. one called test1 and the other called test2. Each volume I will add 2 of the 4GB hard drives and put them in stripe raid.
im no expert in raids and what they all do but I have 3 small home NAS's and each of those are in strip raid with 2 4TB hard drives in them, so the give me 8TB each.
So from what i do know about raids is that strip raid gives increased performance and uses the storage space of each hard drive that is in the raid, that's why in my current NAS's i have 8TB storage and not less.
But using FreeNAS on this VM when I go to create a volume I add the 2 4GB hard drives and set it to Stripped raid. after the set-up of the volume, it shows as only having 4GB of space? why is this, should it not show up as having 8GB of space?