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Mapkwi
Mar 21, 2014Aspirant
Huge mistake-almost 3Tb lost!!
HELP ! I just purchased a RN104 and added two blank 3Tb Red HDD and let the NAS read and configure them. Then I read that after the first two drives, all other ones are just data. So unwittingly I...
mdgm-ntgr
Mar 21, 2014NETGEAR Employee Retired
Where does that article say after the first two disks, the additional ones are just data? It says that adding additional disks will increase your storage space, but that's because with say two disks, any one disk fails data remains intact, and with four disks, any one disk fails, data remains intact. With two disks it is similar to RAID-1, whereas with more disks it is like RAID-5.
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