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Hi! Just discobered XPEnology after looking at Synology units for years but being unable to afford them so now a happy camper. I'm waiting for a free raid card from a friend (and possible a server to make a bare metal install on). Meanwhile I'm trying it out and playing around a bit and I've noticed an issue that confounds me a bit. At first I created 4 virtual disks of 5 GB each, in RAID 0 (should get close to full capacity) the available space was 1.2 GB, so 18 GB short, that's quite hefty. In my current install I had 3 virtual disks of 10 GB each. I know RAID 5 loses one disk to parity, but that should still leave me with close to 20 GB storage, but all I get out is 10 GB. I converted the RAID 5 to Yet another 10 GB virtual drive and that operation went just fine. My question is, what's with the low available space compared to disk volume? Is this an issue due to running it in VMWare with virtual disk or will I see similar low volumes on real steel with actual disks as well? I still haven't decided if I'm going to run XPEnology in a virtual machine on my current server (Windows based) or do a direct metal install on a dedicated machine.