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sdchew
Oct 05, 2011Aspirant
Air Video Transcoding Performance
After deploying 3 ReadyNAS (1x NVX, 2x Pioneer Pro) for other folks who use it purely as a NAS, I'm playing around with the idea of finally getting one for my own home use and shutting down the RAID5 ...
StephenB
Oct 06, 2011Guru - Experienced User
If you have an empty slot, you can specify if the next disk is for redundancy or capacity. If all slots are full, then you need to reformat.
sdchew wrote: Thanks for the advice. By the way, does the ReadyNAS use a ZFS based file system? Or is it still a ext4? Any plans to move to ZFS for additional data integrity protection?
In addition, I remember its not possible to go from single redundancy X-RAID2 array to a dual redundancy X-RAID2 array without having to reformat the entire array. Is that still valid?
Of course, redundancy (single or dual) is not a substitute for backup, it just makes recovery from drive failures less painful.
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