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Capacity increase for DD2200
We are looking at purchasing a DD2200 with the 7 drive configuration - 7.5 TB of usable storage. This will take care of our backup needs for the foreseeable future but if we need more space, can the storage be increased by adding 5 more drives to equal the 12 drive configuration?
Or does one have to buy the 12 drive configuration to start with?
Thanks much,
Gerry
edhoward
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February 16th, 2015 23:00
Hi there,
Yes you can buy half then upgrade but you get less overall capacity than you would buying the full shelf as there will be two RAID groups.
I just worked out the useable capacity recently:
Half: 6.84TB
Full:15.72TB
Half to full: 12.06TB
This is using the Base 2 calculation (1024)
Hope this helps.
Ed
PatricJ
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April 6th, 2016 04:00
Hi,
is it possible to reach the Full capacity with an DD2200 7Disk + 5 Disk Upgrade when I configure it first time or when it was running?
Destroying the filesystem would be no problem