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nas file capacity
I have a 2TB NAS box (Iomega) which in now full but only has 1.2TB of Photos on it.
I have purchased a new NAS box with 4TB capacity (Seagate), before I use it, how can I assure that I will be able to get higher capacities than the 2TB box? We use MAC's and PC's to access them. Is the issue to do with sector size? or manufacturers software?
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October 17, 2014 3:24:52 AM

My question now would be how many entry's can the "INDEX" database hold?
a b G Storage
October 17, 2014 3:05:08 AM

to my understanding yes. but i'm gonna read the article again maybe i'm wrong.
October 17, 2014 3:02:46 AM

So a sector is now 4kb on any size drive, Therefore I have 1,000,000,000 sectors on my drive (as I have a 4TB drive). Therefore I could have 1,000,000,000 files smaller than 4kb on that drive. Correct?
a b G Storage
October 17, 2014 2:40:47 AM

mertonn said:
Thank you for your prompt response.
I am assuming that the sector size on that NAS is large, and we have lots of Photo's on the drive, that these are inefficiently taking up space. I too would agree that 1.2TB is too little. I went into the app that manages the drive and cleaned out everything, that appeared to be hidden to the user, but the drive is adamant that it is full. (I now have a bit of spare space, but would not want to fill the drive as the photos' are very important to the owner). The NAS is also backed up. That is a problem for Professional photographers these days, as they no longer have negatives to store in boxes, just in case. The 2TB drive is an iomega, the new one is a Seagate. but I am worried that the 4TB may not have any more sectors than a 2TB drive, if the OS on the drive can only deliver so many tracks and sectors per drive.


here more info on the matter of HDD sectors http://www.seagate.com/tech-insights/advanced-format-4k...
October 17, 2014 2:32:57 AM

Thank you for your prompt response.
I am assuming that the sector size on that NAS is large, and we have lots of Photo's on the drive, that these are inefficiently taking up space. I too would agree that 1.2TB is too little. I went into the app that manages the drive and cleaned out everything, that appeared to be hidden to the user, but the drive is adamant that it is full. (I now have a bit of spare space, but would not want to fill the drive as the photos' are very important to the owner). The NAS is also backed up. That is a problem for Professional photographers these days, as they no longer have negatives to store in boxes, just in case. The 2TB drive is an iomega, the new one is a Seagate. but I am worried that the 4TB may not have any more sectors than a 2TB drive, if the OS on the drive can only deliver so many tracks and sectors per drive.
a b G Storage
October 17, 2014 2:10:29 AM

1.2TB usable i think is far to low for a 2TB drive....usually it's aroound 1.8-1.9TB usable. maybe you have a hidden partition in the drive.
October 17, 2014 1:39:15 AM

Yes I want more, but I am talking about the amount of sectors on the drive, the size of them, possible the amount of entry's in the file index.
I am sure that I have a 4TB drive, but on my last drive which is 2TB, I am only getting 1.2TB of data. Why is that?

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a b G Storage
October 16, 2014 12:09:05 PM

huh?? what do you mean higher capacity? nas is limited to the hardware. for instance if you buy a nas that says 2tb capacity and having 2 slots..it means 1tbx2 slots. check the spec of the nas to see it's max storage capacity.

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