Know When Your NAS Will Be Full

Step-by-step walkthrough:

1. 1

   Select your NAS on the Storages page

   Open Storages and click your NAS share. A share whose server reports nothing shows Size not reported in its inspector; one on a ZFS dataset may show only a few kilobytes used.

2. 2

   Open its capacity window

   In the inspector, click the pencil next to Storage usage. The Capacity window opens with the disk size, the measured usage and the trend.

3. 3

   Enter the size of its disk

   Pick a preset, from 500 GB to 16 TB, or choose Other… and type the exact size, for example 37.5 TB. The bar shows the free space and how full the share is.

4. 4

   Choose which figures describe it

   If the share reports usage that does not match its folders, such as a few kilobytes on TrueNAS, choose Entered size, measured usage: the app scans the share to measure the space its folders use. Keep Figures from the service when the reported figures are right.

5. 5

   Let it measure, then save

   Leave Measure automatically on: without a reading for 24 hours, the app measures the storage itself once it is idle. Measure now takes a first reading at once. Click Save.

6. 6

   Read the trend and the full date

   After a few days of readings, the inspector shows this week's growth and when the share will be full. The capacity window adds the daily rate and a 7, 30 or 90-day chart with the days it reaches 80, 90 and 100 %.

   

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   Keep an eye on it from the dashboard

   The dashboard ranks your storages by how soon they will be full and shows a To watch notice when one will be full within a month or is 90 % full. Click it to open its chart.

   

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