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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...
X-RAID and RAID-5 both provide protection against a single disk failure. If you wanted RAID-5 + hot-spare (hot-spare automatically kicks in if a drive fails) you'd have a 3 disk RAID-5 volume (2TB) + add fourth disk as hot-spare. RAID-5 itself doesn't include a hot-spare. It is an optional extra that would require you to delete the volume created by default create the volume you want on three disks and designate the fourth as a hot-spare.
Personally I would stick with X-RAID as only X-RAID volumes are expandable, but that's my personal preference.
Personally I would stick with X-RAID as only X-RAID volumes are expandable, but that's my personal preference.
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