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offbyone
Dec 01, 2014Aspirant
NAS104 Raid decision? Xraid vs Raid 10 etc #24296869
I just got a NAS 104 and installed 4 3TB Western Digital Red disks. Since I bought all my drives I don't really plan to upgrade or mess with the drives in the near future. When I powered up and ...
Skywalker
Dec 04, 2014NETGEAR Expert
StephenB wrote: I realize it is not two copies of the XOR (I've implemented Forward Erasure Correction using the Galois field techniques).
I'm confident you know how it works. It just sounded unclear when I read it, so I figured it may confuse others.
BTRFS RAID 5/6 isn't robust enough for us to use yet. If we could be certain that all the disks contained all zeros when the system was factory defaulted, we could skip the initial sync. But the initial sync really shouldn't be too bothersome, since the system if fully usable and fully redundant during the entire sync. A rebuild is a different story, for obvious reasons.
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