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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...
Correct. You can't simply migrate disks to a newer system, but you can recover the data if the NAS itself dies but the disks are intact. I think the answers earlier in the thread make that pretty clear.
schumaku wrote: Hello Kevin,
supahfly wrote: But what happens when your NAS dies, since this XRAID-2 is proprietary for readynas, I assume I can not just take my 4 disks out of my ultra 4 and put them in QNAP, right?
Despite of the fact it's standard Linux RAID and LVM ... every NAS vendor is still using it's own partitioning on the internal NAS HDD. This is prohibiting the storage migration between different vendors - and in many examples also for NAS from the same vendor. Very few exceptions apply.
Regards,
-Kurt.
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