Calculating Capacity To Use - Drobo 5C User Manual

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Calculating Capacity to Use

The best way to determine how much usable, protected storage space you will have
available for your data, based on the number and capacity of the drives you use in your
Drobo device, is to use our Capacity Calculator at www.drobo.com/calculator.
A shortcut to estimating the capacity available for your data is to omit the largest drive
and then add the capacity of the remaining drives. If you plan to use Dual Disk
Redundancy, omit the largest two drives. For example:
Single Disk (Default) Redundancy
Dual Disk Redundancy
Notes:
Actual capacity is often less than what is shown in the examples above due to the
different systems used for rating capacity. This has nothing to do with the Drobo 5C.
Know that your Drobo 5C enables you to easily increase storage capacity at any
time by simply inserting additional drives or replacing smaller drives with larger
ones.
In the Drobo 5C device, 64TB space is available for storage.
Related topics:
Managing Capacity (Drive Space)
Adding Capacity (or Drives)
Checking Storage Usage and Device Status Information
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