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Added the 4th disks but it is not RAID1
Hello everybody, I just added my fourth 3tb hdd to my Ultra4. It did the restripping for 20h or so. I have 3 other 3tb disk inside. After the restripping it merge the data c: from 5400 gig to 8100...
I fully agree with TeknoJnky. X-Raid2 is the best option you have available. Although there is only one disk devoted to redundancy, in reality, the parity is spread among the four disks, so it will survive the failure of a single drive.
However, I would continue to make a full and complete backup of your data and update it periodically as you never, ever want to trust your data to a single device be it a single drive in a PC or a single raid box. Even if you had two Raid1 volumes, and faithfully copied from one volume to the second, it would not be a reliable backup, for if something happened to the device, you would not only be without your primary, but your "backup".
However, I would continue to make a full and complete backup of your data and update it periodically as you never, ever want to trust your data to a single device be it a single drive in a PC or a single raid box. Even if you had two Raid1 volumes, and faithfully copied from one volume to the second, it would not be a reliable backup, for if something happened to the device, you would not only be without your primary, but your "backup".
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