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Fully understanding Xraid2
Hi, I have just recieved my ReadyNAS Ultra 4 with 2 2TB drives. They are seagates so just to be safe, I am testing them with seatools, which will take many hours. While that is happening I thou...
Actually, X-RAID (and X-RAID2) is pretty much an expandable RAID 5, rather than RAID 1. The Duo/Ultra2/Pro2 are limited to "mirroring" due to the fact that they only have 2 drives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID_5#RAID_5
FWIW, I have 2 ReadyNAS devices at home, 1 at my dad's and 3 at work and I only use X-RAID. There's no proprietary file system, either. Drives from a ReadyNAS can be mounted in a standard linux box in the event that the ReadyNAS hardware fails. For example, here are the instructions for mounting drives from a Sparc-based CPU - http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID_5#RAID_5
FWIW, I have 2 ReadyNAS devices at home, 1 at my dad's and 3 at work and I only use X-RAID. There's no proprietary file system, either. Drives from a ReadyNAS can be mounted in a standard linux box in the event that the ReadyNAS hardware fails. For example, here are the instructions for mounting drives from a Sparc-based CPU - http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306.
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