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How to get into flex-raid?
I just got the the ReadyNAS 314 and I can't figure out for the life of me how to get into Flex-Raid. I've ready the manual and documentation online.. I reboot the system and go to Factory Default. There is a 10 minute window.. but I don't know how to get Flex-RAID as an option! Please help. Thank you!
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Yes.PowerMan572 wrote: I guess I didn't know the ReadyNAS supported JBOD? So basically you're saying each drive is setup on it's own then?
Shares are advertised w/o respect to drive letters, so you can still see all the shares when you enter \\NASNAME in windows explorer.PowerMan572 wrote: To be honest, I'm picky. I hate seeing more than 1 drive letter LOL. I don't like to click around and not know where stuff is :-)
The net here is that using RAID-0 to span 4 drives means that you will need to restore 4x more data than necessary (assuming single drive replacements as the norm). Yes, you can do that in about a week (assuming CrashPlan continues to operate at its current speed). But you could do it in about two days, getting everything up and running much faster.
Also, though CrashPlan is working out for me (and is very reasonably priced) I wouldn't trust it (or any cloud provider) as only only backup.
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