NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
MR2
May 16, 2015Aspirant
More than two Drive Mirroring
Version 4.x can do a three drive mirror by selecting the manual raid level, in version 6.x this is gone, it was a really handy feature for Seven of the Sites I manage, I can't see that this feature is...
StephenB
May 16, 2015Guru - Experienced User
He means 3-drive RAID-1. Everything written three times, so you have dual-redundancy protection with three drives.
vandermerwe wrote: What do you mean by a 3 drive mirror? Do you mean a 3 drive raid 5 volume, or a 6 drive raid 1 volume, or something else?
I am not a fan of his envisioned usage (which is to pull drives for backup w/o losing redundancy). But there are likely some cases where the data is critical enough that the users simply would want the extra protection (and perhaps prefer the simplicity of recovery that RAID-1 offers). I believe the mode is already used for the OS partition, and it is available in flex-raid with OS 4 (and the OP is using it there).
It'd be interesting to hear from other users who would use this feature.
Related Content
NETGEAR Academy

Boost your skills with the Netgear Academy - Get trained, certified and stay ahead with the latest Netgear technology!
Join Us!