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Drive Size Order?
I have a NV+v2, with a 500Gb drive in bay 1 and a 2Tb drive in bay 2 (both Seagate), and I am thinking about buying another drive. Option A would be to buy another 2Tb drive to replace the 500Gb dr...
JBOD: "Just a Bunch Of Disks"; an array of drives, each of which is accessed directly as an independent drive
You have two mismatched drives now (500 GB and 2 TB). Are you using XRAID-2 (giving you a single 500 GB volume), or do you have two volumes (one 500 GB and one that is either 1.5 TB or 2 TB)???
Basically you can
(a) forget about RAID and create 5 TB total storage space (not redundant at all)
(b) Use XRAID2 and get 2 TB total storage space (wasting 1 TB, but fully redundant)
(c) Use FlexRAID and get 2 TB of redundant RAID-1 storage, and 1 TB of additional non-redundant space
Picking (a), (b) or (c) is the first choice. How you migrate your data will depend on what you chose, and what you have now.
BTW, personally, I recommend the WD30EFRX over the ST3000DM001. Either way, search the forum for other user experiences, don't just pick something off the HCL.
You have two mismatched drives now (500 GB and 2 TB). Are you using XRAID-2 (giving you a single 500 GB volume), or do you have two volumes (one 500 GB and one that is either 1.5 TB or 2 TB)???
Basically you can
(a) forget about RAID and create 5 TB total storage space (not redundant at all)
(b) Use XRAID2 and get 2 TB total storage space (wasting 1 TB, but fully redundant)
(c) Use FlexRAID and get 2 TB of redundant RAID-1 storage, and 1 TB of additional non-redundant space
Picking (a), (b) or (c) is the first choice. How you migrate your data will depend on what you chose, and what you have now.
BTW, personally, I recommend the WD30EFRX over the ST3000DM001. Either way, search the forum for other user experiences, don't just pick something off the HCL.
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