entyrion
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- Apr 3, 2014
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Hi all,
I'm using FreeNAS 9.10 and I'm starting to get warnings that my storage usage is >80% of available space, which is not recommended. I have 6x identical 2TB hard drives with 2 of them as parity for a total theoretical storage of about 4x2TB=8TB remaining. When I check the storage section of my GUI, 1TB seems to be missing. Either the parent volume (which I assume includes the parity space) is 8.8 used +2.1 available = 10.9TB, or the parent dataset (which I assume excludes parity space) is 5.9 used + 1.1 available = 7TB. In both cases this falls significantly short of the ~12TB/8TB that should be available from hardware alone (an average of ~183GB short per HDD). Is this normal behavior, or is there something that I'm missing that might help increase the available space on the existing hardware? Thanks for your time and help!
I'm using FreeNAS 9.10 and I'm starting to get warnings that my storage usage is >80% of available space, which is not recommended. I have 6x identical 2TB hard drives with 2 of them as parity for a total theoretical storage of about 4x2TB=8TB remaining. When I check the storage section of my GUI, 1TB seems to be missing. Either the parent volume (which I assume includes the parity space) is 8.8 used +2.1 available = 10.9TB, or the parent dataset (which I assume excludes parity space) is 5.9 used + 1.1 available = 7TB. In both cases this falls significantly short of the ~12TB/8TB that should be available from hardware alone (an average of ~183GB short per HDD). Is this normal behavior, or is there something that I'm missing that might help increase the available space on the existing hardware? Thanks for your time and help!