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EPJ
Apr 14, 2016Aspirant
'two raids' ??
Hi All, Am new to this - have got my four bay Nas plus 4x 3Tb drives. But, have not yet had the bottle to set it up! I don't want to get it wrong & perhaps not be able to undo the bad! have gone thr...
- Apr 14, 2016
i believe u are thinking of 2 x raid 1 volumes
when start up the nas u may disable x-raid then destroy the volume
after that highlight first 2 drives and create a new volume called volume1 and select raid 1, then highlight drive 3 and 4 and create a new volume called volume 2 and select raid 1.
done
cpu8088
Apr 14, 2016Virtuoso
i believe u are thinking of 2 x raid 1 volumes
when start up the nas u may disable x-raid then destroy the volume
after that highlight first 2 drives and create a new volume called volume1 and select raid 1, then highlight drive 3 and 4 and create a new volume called volume 2 and select raid 1.
done
mdgm-ntgr
Apr 14, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Note RAID provides redundancy not backup. If the data is important then you should have copies of it on multiple devices not just on the NAS.
RAID is great, but there are problems it won't protect against.
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