Review on 8TB BUFFALO DriveStation Quad - High-performance Desktop DAS with 4 Drives by Gregory Plump

Name: 8TB BUFFALO DriveStation Quad - High-performance Desktop DAS with 4 Drives
Item: 8TB BUFFALO DriveStation Quad - High-performance Desktop DAS with 4 Drives
Rating: 3

October 30, 2022

16TB is only 10.9TB of usable RAID5 space. For real?

I am rating this product based on the responses I am getting from people in Buffalo. So my 16TB box configured for RAID5 needs to use 1 drive (4TB) for the party for fault tolerance. However, after configuring this array in Windows 10 to RAID5, the total available disk space reported by Windows is only 10.9 TB. I was not expecting that. I was expecting around 12TB. Can someone tell me what's going on here? Seems like the place is missing somewhere. is it windows or buffalo?

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