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X-RAID2 compatible with other boxes?
Hi I am sure this question has been asked before, but I did not know how to properly look for the answer so here it goes: The whole purpose of having RAID is to have a redundancy feature for yo...
Exactly. Also if you have a six-slot unit you can expand it to RAID-6.
supahfly wrote: thanks for your replies, much appreciated.
So x-raid2 is actually which raid then ? Because it works with 2 disks already, which meanms that would be RAID1.
But whenever you insert another one, it becomes RAID5?
In addition to converting the array from RAID-1 to RAID-5 to RAID-6, XRAID-2 also handles increasing the disk size, by creating layers. For example, if you have 4 2TB drives, and then upgrade 2 of them to 3 TB, then XRAID-2 will create a new 1 TB RAID-1 layer to use the full disk capacity, and will merge that into your existing volume with the main layer still using RAID-5). You can do some of that with FlexRaid manually, but you'd end up with a 6 TB C volume and a 1 TB D volume.
Underneath, this all uses standard Linux tools (LVM in particular).
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