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First Time new NV+ RND4000 user looking for advice
I have purchased a new RND4000 NV+ 4 Bay Ready Nas and two WD Green EARS 1Tb drives from Newegg. I have been doing a lot of casual reading on these forums and am aware there may be chance of receiv...
ohhh yeah,
important question
would you use the XRAID or set up RAID5
either way with 4 1Tb drives my understanding is I should end up with 3Tb roughly storage and redundancy, but RAID 5 would have the additional benefit of having a separate drive that automatically kicks in should one of the other drives fail. Where RAIDX would just let me know a drive failed and I would have to then acquire a drive. Wondering though, in a RAID 5 setup, does the system sit and spin that fourth "unused" drive the entire time the array is running, seems like unnecessary wear.
How do I know if it is necessary, I have read it could take all night for it to do this on the first drive. It will be a brand new drive out of the box, is it necessary? The data will need to be added to the two WD Greens before I can add the Hitachi's to the mix because they have data on them that I need to move to the array. So I figured I will install the two brand new WD Green's, drop the data on the array, then delete the partitions from the Hitachi's and add them to the array. Then I can replace the Hitachi's with WD Greens one at a time as funds allow.
important question
would you use the XRAID or set up RAID5
either way with 4 1Tb drives my understanding is I should end up with 3Tb roughly storage and redundancy, but RAID 5 would have the additional benefit of having a separate drive that automatically kicks in should one of the other drives fail. Where RAIDX would just let me know a drive failed and I would have to then acquire a drive. Wondering though, in a RAID 5 setup, does the system sit and spin that fourth "unused" drive the entire time the array is running, seems like unnecessary wear.
mdgm wrote:
2. Factory default if necessary
How do I know if it is necessary, I have read it could take all night for it to do this on the first drive. It will be a brand new drive out of the box, is it necessary? The data will need to be added to the two WD Greens before I can add the Hitachi's to the mix because they have data on them that I need to move to the array. So I figured I will install the two brand new WD Green's, drop the data on the array, then delete the partitions from the Hitachi's and add them to the array. Then I can replace the Hitachi's with WD Greens one at a time as funds allow.
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