Storage pool1 and datavol 1 - newbie

[Lars-Gustav]

Hi

I am a newbie and hope someone can help me with what is probably a very basic question.
I have a Ts 453mini Running 4 x 3TB in RAID 5.

I am getting af warning that I am using 80% of my disk space, but I only use 3,15TB . (looking af screen shot 1)

I should have approx 8 GB of space in RAID 5.

What is the difference between storage pool 1 and DATAvol 1?

Basically I want all my space to be available for storage.
How do I set this up?

I hope someone can help?

Regards
Lars

[razormoon]

Hi

I am a newbie and hope someone can help me with what is probably a very basic question.
I have a Ts 453mini Running 4 x 3TB in RAID 5.

I am getting af warning that I am using 80% of my disk space, but I only use 3,15TB . (looking af screen shot 1)

I should have approx 8 GB of space in RAID 5.

What is the difference between storage pool 1 and DATAvol 1?

Basically I want all my space to be available for storage.
How do I set this up?

I hope someone can help?

Regards
Lars

Storage Pool 1 >> Manage >> Expand Volume, look for Set to Max.

[OneCD]

Hi Lars, and welcome to the forum!

What is the difference between storage pool 1 and DATAvol 1?

This tutorial may help explain.

In short:

• Lowest level in your NAS is the hard drives.
• The hard drives are used to create one-or-more RAIDs,
• The RAIDs are used to create one-or-more storage pools,
• Inside each storage pool, you create one-or-more data volumes,
• Inside each data volume, you put your own files.

In your case, the data volume is half of the storage pool size. This was the default allocation amount when you created it.

Basically I want all my space to be available for storage.
How do I set this up?

You can increase this. In your second screenshot, the option to do so is under the 'Manage' button. This is shown in the tutorial under "Expand volume capacity online".

Good luck!

[storageman]

It's because Qnap's default is to take 50% of the storage pool for the first volume (system).
If you don't override it at the time you create the volume you can later expand it with set to max or some other size you decide.

[Lars-Gustav]

thank you for your reply.
It was very helpful.

/Lars