How are you sharing it? Also, since it hasn't been said: what FreeNAS version?
When I said 1GB , I was speaking about the available space on the share made on FreeNAS - while it was using 3GB disk
You mean 3Tb and 1TB?
ALso what version of ESX are you using?
sorry for talking about 3TiB and 3GiB ,
The Terabyte examples are from a Dell T420 server with ESXi 5.1 and FreeNAS as guest (latest version, fresh downloaded),
Gigabyte examples are on my workstation (Ubuntu) , running same, fresh FreeNAS as guest on a VMWare workstation 9 host.
The reason I started testing on workstation and right now are only testing that - is because I thought there could be something strange with multi terabyte drives.. that's also why I limited the virtual drive size to 3TiB - because it's no bigger then than a single drive.
From now on, I promise to stick to speaking of Gigabytes for the rest of the testing.
I never mixed up Giga*bits* into this.
I am glad to hear that you think this behavior is strange.
My backup plan is to skip FreeNAS, and run a Ubuntu server as file server on plain EXT4. - , but it would be sweet to get FreeNAS to doi the job,