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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 wrote: 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.
If you use software such as Clonezilla, & set it up to do a sector by sector copy, where do you see the danger mdgm?
[edit:] That was said with the respect that I believe you know I have for you mdgm. Just thought I should add that. :)
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