Premise: early I tried to post in the qnap subreddit, but there isn't much movement there in this moment. So I take a chance to ask here, hoping someone can help me.
Hi,
I have a qnap TS-653A with a the firmware version 5.1.5.
Recently I switched from 5x6TB to 5x18TB using RAID 5. Following guides online, I expanded the pool and now in the specifications it tells me that I have a Capacity of 65.45TB, Allocated 64.21TB and Unallocated 1.24TB.
My DataVol1 (I have just a single volume), after the resize to increase the volume to the maximum possible size, has a Capacity of 62.99TB.
Is it normal to have 1.24TB more on the pool that I cannot use to increase further the capacity of my volume? Can I use it in any way?
Also, since today I used always a Thick volume. If I'll change to Thin, will I be able to use more space (aka that unallocated portion of the pool)?
Thank you