DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

TomSluyts wrote:

Is this normal? I know that the 750 depends on formatting and filesystem etc, but to me this seems to be a big difference with regard to the stated volume of the drive.

750 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 698.49...

disk capacity is not measured in binary units, i.e. GB = 10^9 bytes.

you know I have a 500gb abd it shows up as 457 but the ones in my computer NTFS are 465

so why is it smaller on the NAS even though they are both the same size drive



and YES I know about the whole 1000 vs 1024 thingie - I know its not going to be 500 (stupid drive makers, all we want is it to say 1TB not 931GB so do what ever it takes and make it show up "correctly" - you know what I am talking about)

leftkidney wrote:

I have a 500gb abd it shows up as 457 but the ones in my computer NTFS are 465
so why is it smaller on the NAS even though they are both the same size drive

You could be seeing a difference in size because the NTFS formated drives have only one partition,
and the DNS-323 drives have more that one partition.

If you have telnet access to your DNS-323, logon and type

fdisk -l /dev/sda

You will see the partitions information and size allocation for each partition.