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Default to RAID 5 after factory reset?
I am a relative novice in these matters and would appreciate some help. I have a ReadyNAS 104 with 3 x 3TB WD Red drives- I have been experiencing the freezing widely reported here after exceeding 70...
Thanks for the quick response Vandermerwe.
First of all I am an idiot! Reading the page again I realise that it is telling me that I have used 3.23Megabytes of 5.4TB not 3.23 Terabytes. Obviously there are some system files in the volume. Sorry for the mistake.
However, I am still confused about what type of RAID array has been set up. The admin page says that it is RAID5 but there is an icon that shows XRAID with a green bar underneath. If I click on that I get a popup asking if I really want to toggle from XRAID to Flex-RAID which implies that I am actually running XRAID. If that is the case why does the admin page say that my volume is RAID5? It is possible that I may add a fourth drive and I would prefer to be running XRAID so that I can add the extra drive without having to rebuild the array. I would like to be sure before I start reloading all my data. If I knew how to add a screenshot to this post I would show you the page.
First of all I am an idiot! Reading the page again I realise that it is telling me that I have used 3.23Megabytes of 5.4TB not 3.23 Terabytes. Obviously there are some system files in the volume. Sorry for the mistake.
However, I am still confused about what type of RAID array has been set up. The admin page says that it is RAID5 but there is an icon that shows XRAID with a green bar underneath. If I click on that I get a popup asking if I really want to toggle from XRAID to Flex-RAID which implies that I am actually running XRAID. If that is the case why does the admin page say that my volume is RAID5? It is possible that I may add a fourth drive and I would prefer to be running XRAID so that I can add the extra drive without having to rebuild the array. I would like to be sure before I start reloading all my data. If I knew how to add a screenshot to this post I would show you the page.
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