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Is there any way to set up a software RAID..? Please help.
Hi, I think I may be asking the impossible but I wanted to double check before I try swapping my hardware etc as I've spent a lot of wasted time messing about trying to set it all up. Is there a wa...
Hmmm.
That brings up another Scenario. You probably could set up a jbod raid but you would need some low level os running on it like freenas which is a freeware software based raid array system. So you would need a small computer and run a usb - usb between the computer.
I have been running raid 0 arrays on computers since 2001 on IDE (oh yeahhhh) ata66 & ata100. It was substantial increase(and a pain-in-the-butt to reformat) [windows install disks do not come raid drives ...naturally...and they MUST be loaded via a 3.5 inch disk. Windows 7 was the first os I've seen that included them.
In the last 12 years I've had raids go offline 4 times. 2 times it came back and 2 times I lost everything(And yes it sucks!).
If you are going to cheap route that's probably what I do if you are trying to increase the storage on your nas box without using xraid to increase the size(or it it's maxed) but the usb connections are write protected so you would need to transfer all the content to the array and then connect it up.
That brings up another Scenario. You probably could set up a jbod raid but you would need some low level os running on it like freenas which is a freeware software based raid array system. So you would need a small computer and run a usb - usb between the computer.
I have been running raid 0 arrays on computers since 2001 on IDE (oh yeahhhh) ata66 & ata100. It was substantial increase(and a pain-in-the-butt to reformat) [windows install disks do not come raid drives ...naturally...and they MUST be loaded via a 3.5 inch disk. Windows 7 was the first os I've seen that included them.
In the last 12 years I've had raids go offline 4 times. 2 times it came back and 2 times I lost everything(And yes it sucks!).
If you are going to cheap route that's probably what I do if you are trying to increase the storage on your nas box without using xraid to increase the size(or it it's maxed) but the usb connections are write protected so you would need to transfer all the content to the array and then connect it up.
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