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Iggy2015
Sep 21, 2015Aspirant
NAS Rn104
Hello There, i am looking to purchase a NAS RN104, and was wondering i have several hard drives with data on then and when installing them into the nas drive will the data remain and be useable ...
- Sep 21, 2015
The NAS will need to format the disks so make sure your backup is up to date first.
Yes, if you disable X-RAID and destroy (wipes all data) the default volume you can create a separate volume for each disk.
When you are using a separate volume for each disk it is even more important than it would be otherwise to regularly backup. With non-redundant volumes if a disk fails, you will lose all the data on the volume using that disk.
mdgm-ntgr
Sep 21, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
The NAS will need to format the disks so make sure your backup is up to date first.
Yes, if you disable X-RAID and destroy (wipes all data) the default volume you can create a separate volume for each disk.
When you are using a separate volume for each disk it is even more important than it would be otherwise to regularly backup. With non-redundant volumes if a disk fails, you will lose all the data on the volume using that disk.
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