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Wrong amount of storage

We have a EX4100 16TB, serial number WUBF27170397.

However when we log in it shows only 8TB of storage available. Why is this?

You may want to ask your question in this Forum.

http://community.wd.com/c/network-attached-storage/wd-my-cloud-ex4

Is your RAID mode set to RAID 1 Mirrored? If so you will only have half the total space as usable space because the data is mirrored using RAID 1. You can set the RAID mode to RAID 0 Stripping and get the full 16TB but that will have no redundancy so if there is a problem with any of the disks all the data is lost.

You are correct, this was the problem.

Apologies for bothering the community with something trivial like this.

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