swamiforlife Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 I have an unraid array with 18tb drives. Each drive is listed as 17.9TB free. The same drive in windows once formatted shows free as 16.3TB. So why do the drives in Unraid show so much free space? Is that the correct or should look at it in a different way? All the drives in my array are formatted using XFS Quote Link to comment
Solution JorgeB Posted January 25 Solution Share Posted January 25 Google TiB vs TB. Quote Link to comment
swamiforlife Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 @JorgeB Thanks, i understand now. But i think it would be nice if there was an option in UnRaid to use TiB instead of TB. It makes it easier to deal with storing and planning out storage when copying data from WIndows or other TiB os'es. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Yes, this has been asked before, and maybe in the future it will be added by LT, but I think the default should still be TB, if not there will be a new post every day how the user has an 8TB drive and Unraid only shows the disk as 7.3T Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Disk manufacturers show sizes using the metric system. This is agreed by the industry. Unfortunately Windows is the only OS not following this standard, which leads to a lot of confusion. Apple and Linux distributions show sizes the expected (correct) way. Quote Link to comment
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