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Easiest RAID configuration to recover data if ReadyNAS fails
Hello, I have a ReadyNAS 104 and am not able to buy another quickly if mine fails someday (the NAS, not the drives), because I live in Brazil and hardware of this type here is prohibitely expensive...
All right. So I'm convinced about raid 6 since it's possible to recover the data in the event of a nas failure, and I prefer safety over performance.
However I'm not sure yet if the process is possible with what I have in hand:
- Two older disks with data mirrored
- 104 nas with two empty, newer hdds, identical to the older ones
- The nas is currently configured in an xraid, raid 1 array with its two drives
Would the following procedure work?
1) Copy over the data from the older hdds to the nas
2) Format both older hdds
3) Install both older hdds on the nas
4) Disable xraid
5) Convert the array to raid 6
Or would this procedure erase data on the nas? In this case, my only options are either to go with two raid 1 arrays or to buy more hdds to make another backup, right?
However I'm not sure yet if the process is possible with what I have in hand:
- Two older disks with data mirrored
- 104 nas with two empty, newer hdds, identical to the older ones
- The nas is currently configured in an xraid, raid 1 array with its two drives
Would the following procedure work?
1) Copy over the data from the older hdds to the nas
2) Format both older hdds
3) Install both older hdds on the nas
4) Disable xraid
5) Convert the array to raid 6
Or would this procedure erase data on the nas? In this case, my only options are either to go with two raid 1 arrays or to buy more hdds to make another backup, right?
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