* NOTE: All results are just estimates, so you cannot sue me if they dont match - ALSO PLEASE READ ALL THE NOTES
* NOTE: RN is for ReadyNAS, RD is for ReadyDATA

(Step 1) Please select Architecture Type:

     ReadyNAS: Intel, X86 (RN Firmware 4.2.x / RAIDiator 4, and OS 6)
     ReadyNAS: ARM (ReadyNAS RAIDiator 5.x, and OS 6)
     ReadyNAS: SPARC (ReadyNAS Firmware 4.1.x)
     ReadyDATA (RD Firmware 1.x.x)

    For ReadyNAS 6.x use Intel or ARM depending on unit.

(Step 2) Snapshot Size (between 0 and 100 GB) [GiB, base 2]:
    For ReadyNAS OS 6 & ReadyDATA use 0 GB snapshot (So just skip this step for ReadyNAS OS 6 and ReadyDATA). This is meant for units which you have to initialize the snapshot size when you setup the unit at Factory default (so the 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and 5.x - the units which use EXT and LVM). We use 0 for the ReadyDATA and ReadyNAS 6.x, because those units use ZFS and BTRFS, respectively. ZFS or BTRFS are used for volume management and as filesystem together ZFS and BTRFS do not require pre-allocating space for snapshots during initialization of the device (during Factory default).

(Step 3)Fill the Slots [of a Single VDEV/RAID Group] with Drives:

    Fill these slots up to match your VDEV/RAID Group (assuming all your vdevs have the same number of storage drives - if you have VDEVS in the same volume with different number of storage drives - to emphasize again, performance enhancing cache drives dont count as storage increasing drives. In the case that you have different number of storage drives in your VDEVS -ex VDEV1 has 5 drives, and VDEV2 has 4 DRIVES, calculate each vdev manually using this calculator, leave the vdev multiplier counter below at 1, and then add up the numbers manually). After filling out this single VDEV in the next step use the multiplier/vdev/RAID Group field to tell the calculator how many of these VDEVS you have (Again only use the multiplier if each VDEV has the same number of storage drives - and again, performance enhancing cache drives dont count as storage increasing drives - what do you do if each VDEV/RAID Group has different number of Storage Drives? Calculate each VDEV seperately and add up the totals.)If your NAS doesnt support RAID Groups/VDEVs then that means you only have 1 VDEV/RAID Group, simply ignore the fields/text that mentions VDEVS/RAID Groups.

    For units use GBs of the Manufacturer's provided Drive Size [GB, base 10]
    Gigabytes = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes or 1 KB = 1000 Bytes
    So base 10 units (ex: for 3 TB drives, just put 3000)
    Put 0 for empty slots

    Select 12, 60 or Any Drives to start configuring the drives

(Step 4) Multiplier (number of vdevs / number of RAID groups):
    - If you dont know what this does just leave this as 1 (the default value). Also this number should always be an INTEGER and not have a DECIMAL (although the calculation will still work if its a decimal number is given).
    - This is a multiplier field. It will just multiply all of the answers by this number. This is useful if you have multiple vdevs. For ReadyNAS 4.1.x & 4.2.x & 5.x use 1 (1 is the default). For ReadyNAS 6.x use 1 (unless you have done vdev horizontal expansions). For ReadyDATA this is the number of vdevs you have. Running "zpool status" from SSH (SSH is not supported under warranty) can show you the number of vdevs in your volumes, and the number of drives in each vdev.
    - NOTE: If you have multiple VDEVs & thus a multiplier bigger than 1, please make sure each vdev is the same size (same number of storage drives - performance enhancing drives such as ZIL or ARC do not count), also when you do the calculation make sure you fill out STEP 3, the drives, as you have a single vdev (not the whole unit).
    - EXAMPLE: if you have a 24 drive array (each drive 4 TB) that is made of 3 vdevs. Then fill out STEP 3 with 8 drives (24 divided 3) of size 4000 each (4 TB), and here put 3 for the multiplier.
    - KEY EXAMPLE: When you expand a ReadyDATA volume from a volume that is 5 drives in a RAID 5, you have 1 VDEV/RAID group, then you add 5 more drives to your ReadyDATA, and you expand the initial volume, creating a 2nd VDEV. So now you have 10 drives of 2 VDEVS each housing 5 drives - we call this RAID 50x2. Now take another 5 drives and expand that same initial volume, now you have RAID 50x3, which has 15 drives (3 vdevs, each with 5 drives). Each of those vdevs gives you 1 drive for parity, and 4 drives for storage capacity. So in total after the 2 expansions, aka RAID 50x3, you have 4*3=12 storage drives, and 1*4 parity drives. You can lose up to 4 drives, considering they only fail in different vdevs. A better way to see it, is you can only lose up 1 drive in each of the 3 VDEVS and still have your volume running. As soon as you lose 2 drives in any VDEV that will go up to. Of course in RAID 60x3 you can lose up to 2 drives and no more per VDEV, for a total of 2*3=6 parity drives that you can lose. (dont think that any individual drive holds the parity, each drive holds parity, the parity stripes with ZFS are dynamic and variable and spread across each drive, this variability fixes alot of issues of traditional RAID 5.). If you lose more than 1 drive in a vdev in RAID 5, or 2 drives in a vdev in RAID 6, your volume goes offline and you can use data recovery services to see if Netgear can recover your data.

(Step 5) Press this to calculate the result or just press Enter Key
NOTE: switching between fields will also update the results

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