NAS Problem

[Rhyn]

In my film class we use a NAS system to store all of our footage from various events and videos we work on for our school.  We obviously need a lot of storage space for all of this footage but our NAS system is only showing up as 786 gb max for each of our 3 tb drives.  We have tried reformatting the drives thinking that they were in raid 1 but that didn't help at all.  Has anyone else had this issue? If so how did you fix it? Just in case it matters we are running two 3 TB WD Black drives in a d link nas set up. Thanks in advance.

[alpenwasser]

In my film class we use a NAS system to store all of our footage from various events and videos we work on for our school.  We obviously need a lot of storage space for all of this footage but our NAS system is only showing up as 786 gb max for each of our 3 tb drives.  We have tried reformatting the drives thinking that they were in raid 1 but that didn't help at all.  Has anyone else had this issue? If so how did you fix it? Just in case it matters we are running two 3 TB WD Black drives in a d link nas set up. Thanks in advance.

I have read about similar problems with drives larger than 2.2 TB not being supported

by certain controllers. If I recall correctly, the fact that they are showing up as

786 GB is no coincidence, since that's exactly the capacity by which they are larger

than the controller's limit (some guy once did a calculation I saw down to the byte,

and I think the maximum capacity supported +786 GB = 3 TB if you do things really

accurately). I'm not 100 % sure, but this sounds very similar to that.

I recommend finding out exactly what SATA controller you're using and then checking

what capacity drives that controller supports.

[wpirobotbuilder]

In my film class we use a NAS system to store all of our footage from various events and videos we work on for our school.  We obviously need a lot of storage space for all of this footage but our NAS system is only showing up as 786 gb max for each of our 3 tb drives.  We have tried reformatting the drives thinking that they were in raid 1 but that didn't help at all.  Has anyone else had this issue? If so how did you fix it? Just in case it matters we are running two 3 TB WD Black drives in a d link nas set up. Thanks in advance.

Not really a solution to your problem, but does your school allow you to request your own network share?

[Rhyn]

Not really a solution to your problem, but does your school allow you to request your own network share?

No they don't.  They're pretty locked down about the internet.  The only reason I'm allowed to help with this issue is because I'm a technician for that class.