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fayraz
Jul 16, 2009Aspirant
Installing two hard drives as seperate volumes
Hi, I have just received my ReadyNas Duo and have got a 1 x 1TB hard drive, I am waiting fot Netgear to send me a 500GB hard drive. What I want to do is leave the 1TB as a seperate volume and us...
mdgm-ntgr
Mar 02, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
I wouldn't try cloning your disks onto larger capacity ones. If you setup a volume for each disk and the disk with Volume C on it fails, Volume D will remain intact. The OS is mirrored across both disks on a separate partition to your data so it can withstand a disk failure. You can put a new disk in, create a new volume C, recreate your shares and restore your data from backup (you should have one if you value your data).
Cloning your disks can be useful for cases related to data recovery. I wouldn't clone ReadyNAS disks for any other purpose.
Cloning your disks can be useful for cases related to data recovery. I wouldn't clone ReadyNAS disks for any other purpose.
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