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In order to keep up with the endless data created while animating I purchased some new drives for our NAS box. It used to run 5x 400 gig drives striped on raid 5. This has worked well for nearly 5 years now, so I optimistically built a new stripe with 6x 1tb drives hoping for 4tb's or more of storage but it's only given me 2tb. Does the box require a new module with a new version of open e or have I configured the srtipe incorrectly.
Thanks
Robert.
Check that you dont have the Auto Carving enabled, you should see the full usable amount to be used as a volume group.
Re: Auto Carving enabled
No this is not enabled.
Just to be clear here the NAS 2.0 has a 2TB Logical Volume limit but the Volume Group can be up to 16TB. So are you only seeing 2TB as the volume group or for the logical volume?
Also you never stated what is the RAID controller and model type.
In the html open e Disk manager it reads:
"-- unit 0 --l-- unit size 2190.43 --l-- in use--"
in the html 3DM WARE 2/ unit info/ Controller id 2/ readout it shows:
" --l--unit 0 --l-- RAID 5 --l-- 4.55tb --l-- OK"
Below are the details shown from the 3dm ware page. I hope this helps.
Controller Details (Controller ID 2)
Model 9500S-8
Serial # F19402A4470481
Firmware FE9X 2.06.00.009
Driver 2.24.03.015fw
BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.051
Boot Loader BL9X 2.02.00.001
Memory Installed 112 MB
# of Ports 8
# of Units 1
# of Drives 6
Error Log [Download Error Log]
The raid controller is:
3ware 3DM 2 version 2.03.00.025
The only other detail I can think of is that the stripe size was set to 64 kb, but I'm not sure if this would have made any difference.
I saw this KB from 3Ware and being that it is a 9500 series you may want to try to enable the Auto Carving to see if you will see the 2 seperate arrays then you can add them together in the disk manager. I was thinking there would be an option for LBA 64bit mode but not an expert on the old controllers.
http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=13431
http://www.digiconcepts.com/3ware_co...ercards_08.htm "Maximum of 2 TB per RAID array" verify with the card properties - I saw this on there site.
So I might need to enable Auto Carving and or create more than on array, then join them together, or will NAS 2.0 still only see 2 tbs?
How would I create more than one array?
It will see 2 Arrays then create one Volume group then add the other to that volume group.
Thank you. I'm still a little confused as to the 4.53 available space, and how exactly i format 2 arrays.
Will I need to to start again again from the setup panel to create one more array or can I simply add another to the existing 2.1tb.
From the NAS side you would add it to the existing Volume Group or VG00