- Jan 2, 2006
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I just got the Drobo Mini and since it only supports 2.5" drives I've installed four 1TB disks in it. I don't foresee 2.5" disks to expand much past 1.5TB for a long time.
Four 1TB disks = 4TB, but since it uses RAID I figure that I should have 3TB actually available to me.
During setup it asked me what I want the Max Capacity / Volume Size of the Drobo to be. It said that Max Capacity is the maximum that I ever plan on having the Drobo be. So I selected 16 TB, even though the drive actually only has 4TB and 2.6 TB available.
Windows shows the drive as being a full 16TB. What happens when it reaches 2.6TB? It'll show the 16TB as not being full, but the actual disks will be full. And when that time comes 2.5" disks will still be around 1 TB.
I'm just confused on what I should expect when this happens.
Four 1TB disks = 4TB, but since it uses RAID I figure that I should have 3TB actually available to me.
During setup it asked me what I want the Max Capacity / Volume Size of the Drobo to be. It said that Max Capacity is the maximum that I ever plan on having the Drobo be. So I selected 16 TB, even though the drive actually only has 4TB and 2.6 TB available.
Windows shows the drive as being a full 16TB. What happens when it reaches 2.6TB? It'll show the 16TB as not being full, but the actual disks will be full. And when that time comes 2.5" disks will still be around 1 TB.
I'm just confused on what I should expect when this happens.