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XRAID-2 Hot Spare or Expansion with FlexRaid
I've seen a few messages a year old regarding hot spare support on X-RAID. I would really like to see hot spare support on the ReadyNAS pro with XRAID2. I know there is auto expansion to consider bu...
Thanks yoh-dah...
I realize that I could use the dual redudancy feature but I don't like the storage overhead cost. What I'd like to do is put 5 drives in it with raid 5 (which also doesn't have the write overhead) and then have the sixth standing by for the failure. I realize this leaves my vulnerable during the failure but I think its a good compromise at least until a 10 bay readynas appears in that case I'd probably go with the dual redundancy...
I realize that I could use the dual redudancy feature but I don't like the storage overhead cost. What I'd like to do is put 5 drives in it with raid 5 (which also doesn't have the write overhead) and then have the sixth standing by for the failure. I realize this leaves my vulnerable during the failure but I think its a good compromise at least until a 10 bay readynas appears in that case I'd probably go with the dual redundancy...
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