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                        <title>Extra space?</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/extra-space/#post-2199</link>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2017 23:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[There are other partitions on the disk which have specific sizes that would also need to be taken into account. There are a couple SoftRAID partitions and an OS X &quot;boot partition&quot;. So you ca...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[There are other partitions on the disk which have specific sizes that would also need to be taken into account. There are a couple SoftRAID partitions and an OS X "boot partition". So you cannot precisely calculate the remaining free space without knowing the other variables.

Mr. Spock calculates that if you were willing to sacrifice some performance and re-create your RAID 1+0 volume using 16K stripe unit sizes, you would be able to use the drives down to the last 8K, which would increase the volume size by approximately 0.000000000163808%]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Extra space?</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/extra-space/#post-369</link>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I have a ThunderBay 4 with 4x4TB set up as a RAID 1+0 (8TB total volume). In SoftRAID 5.6.1, each drive says:

size: 4 TB * available: 21 KB

Why is 21KB left over on each drive?

The ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I have a ThunderBay 4 with 4x4TB set up as a RAID 1+0 (8TB total volume). In SoftRAID 5.6.1, each drive says:

size: 4 TB * available: 21 KB

Why is 21KB left over on each drive?

The total drive size is 4,000,787,030,016 and with 64KB blocks (65,536 bytes), there should be 24,576 bytes left over which is 24 KB.]]></content:encoded>
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