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Adding a 2nd HHD
I have a question I am wondering if someone could help me with. I have 1 2TB HDD in my readynas RN102 2bay server and I want to add a 2nd HHD just to make sure my photos are backed up. Can I use a ...
Edited my first response (after I reread your question).
What you'll have when you are finished is RAID-1 redundancy - which is not enough to keep your data safe. What you really need to do is make regular backups to another device. If you are doing that already, then RAID-1 gives you a bit more protection and availability during routine disk failures and expansion.
To get there from where you are:
First you need to back up to a different device.
Then you'd need to do a factory reset (which you can do from the web UI), and set up the NAS again, and reload the data from the backup.
But with raid 1 if one hhd fails the data is still on the other correct? If that happens then I can buy another hhd and then that data would be written to that HHD so it is safe then if yet another hhd fails?
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