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RN316+EDA500: Global Hot Spare possible?
Is the following possible? RN316 with 6 disks, 5 used as RAID5 for volume1, 6th as global hot spare; attached EDA500 with 5 disks used as RAID5 for volume2; all disks have same size of 4 TB. A...
georgeMMXII wrote: Thank you for the replies. So a hot spare disk is not limited to single volume but it is limited to chassis it is in.
Another question:
Are volumes also limited to a single chassis or is it possible to create volumes from disks in different chassis'?
For example, is the following possible?
RN316 with 6 disks, attached EDA500 with 5 disks,
all together used as RAID6 for volume1,
all disks have same size of 4 TB.
Thanks again.
No. You can create single volume across multiple chassis in Flex-RAID mode. I personally didn't recommend this if somehow eSATA cable/JBOD fall out, your volume is dead.
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