How to configure Duo as Non-RAID

dshepard wrote:
Thanks to both dbott67 and mdgm

You're welcome.

dshepard wrote:

I recently was able to to do exactly what you are trying to do. As is mentioned, you will have to back up your data first. In my case that was easy because I bought a second DUO. :D I now have two DUOs each with 2 x 1TB drives with a total of 4TB (nominal) storage. I now have what I consider true redundancy/backup as I have the two DUOs "rsync" each other for all my critical data. A large bulk of what is stored are DVD images so I don't need to back up those as I have the DVDs to go back to if needed. It is comforting to know if for any reason (other than theft or fire) one of the DUOs crashes, I have lost NOTHING. :D

Backing up is good. I have my backup NAS off-site most of the time (I really want to get another one at some point). After all RAID is not a backup. Rsync will just copy incremental changes. I backup some really big files but they only have to be backed up once to my backup NAS as they don't change.

RAID is not a backup and using RAID-0 (no redundancy) you certainly would want to backup. I have 2 NV+ with 4x1.5TB in each using X-RAID (lose capacity of one disk to redundancy on each NAS).