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illmatic
Nov 27, 2012Guide
[NV+ v2] 4 disks, 2 separate RAID-1 volumes?
I am about to purchase a 4-bay NV+ v2. I would like confirmation that it can support 2 separate RAID-1 volumes -- for example, disk 1 and 2 are mirrors, and 3 and 4 are mirrors. But 1-2 and 3-4 are ...
PapaBear1
Nov 29, 2012Apprentice
But, you are wasting disk space that way. You can create the root based shares and map them to drives. You can also limit who has access to which share/drive.
Assuming you are using 1TB drives for example, using two flex raid volume in Raid1, you have a max of 2TB (gross) disk space available to you. If you use X-Raid2 or even Raid5, you would have 3TB (gross) disk space available to you.
Download the manual that StephenB gave you the link to and read through it, especially the part about permissions and shares.
Assuming you are using 1TB drives for example, using two flex raid volume in Raid1, you have a max of 2TB (gross) disk space available to you. If you use X-Raid2 or even Raid5, you would have 3TB (gross) disk space available to you.
Download the manual that StephenB gave you the link to and read through it, especially the part about permissions and shares.
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