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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...
Thank you for the explanation StephenB. Of course it's right and will be enough, I was thinking of a 320gb space but there would still be two drives so it amounts to 640gb (minus overhead), my bad.
I asked about the data being evenly distributed because I've read about Windows's Storage Spaces and one of the complaints in some articles was that it doesn't rearrange the data when you insert more disks and that could become a problem later on. As you said, the ReadyNAS rebuilds the array when you insert new disks so that should be OK.
I'll now proceed to make my NAS useful with the 4x3tb drives. Thank you (and mdgm) for all the help!
I asked about the data being evenly distributed because I've read about Windows's Storage Spaces and one of the complaints in some articles was that it doesn't rearrange the data when you insert more disks and that could become a problem later on. As you said, the ReadyNAS rebuilds the array when you insert new disks so that should be OK.
I'll now proceed to make my NAS useful with the 4x3tb drives. Thank you (and mdgm) for all the help!
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