IMPORTANT!
OPEN-E DSS V7 END OF LIFE
Please note that each Open-E DSS V7 license supports a certain maximum available storage space that can be utilized. With the "Unlimited" license there are no limitations on how much storage space can be used. If the combined storage licenses exceed 48TB they result in an "Unlimited" version as well.
HDDs per Subunit:
Number of Subunits:
Available space:
0 TB1Required total capacity:
How to use this calculator?
Product: Select the Open-E product for which the RAID array will be used.
RAID type: The Hardware RAID array is managed by any supported dedicated RAID controller, which is highly recommended for the RAID type. The Software RAID array is managed by the built-in software RAID manager.
Min. HDD Capacity: Capacity of the smallest drive in your array.
Number of HDDs: The number of drives you are planning to use in the array.
RAID level: The RAID configuration type that determines the collaboration of discs and fault tolerance.
Subunits: Two-level RAID configuration allow creating arrays that consist of already created RAID setups - "Subunits".
Unused HDDs: Number of HDDs that could not be utilized in selected RAID configuration
What do these results show?
Available space: The amount of space that will be available for your data in this configuration.
Required license capacity: required storage space for building the RAID system for this configuration, consisting of the base storage and (optionally) additional storage extensions.
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