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vrspectre
Sep 01, 2015Apprentice
Am I Dual Redundant?
I'm wondering if I have already setup as dual redundacy. My type is set to RAID 6 and i have 5 x 4TB drives in and 10.9TB combined used and free space. This leads me to beleive that I might...
- Sep 01, 2015
Yes.
RAID-6 is a dual-redundant RAID level.
If you are using X-RAID2 then it would be X-RAID2 dual-redundancy and can expand when an empty drive bay is filled or when four higher capacity disks have been added (add one disk at a time, wait for the array to rebuild before adding the next disk).
mdgm-ntgr
Sep 01, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
Yes.
RAID-6 is a dual-redundant RAID level.
If you are using X-RAID2 then it would be X-RAID2 dual-redundancy and can expand when an empty drive bay is filled or when four higher capacity disks have been added (add one disk at a time, wait for the array to rebuild before adding the next disk).
- vrspectreSep 01, 2015Apprentice
Thanks. :)
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