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acugye
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Jun 26, 2017
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New Red Harddrive not avaialbe for backupo

Hello, I recentyl added a new WDRed 4 TB drive to my 2 bay Ready Nas 102.  It shows it to be in good health but it does to seem to be avasilbe for backup. I am using Bvckup2 to move data from my Win...
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    Sandshark
    Jun 29, 2017

    One thing to note:  With two separate volumes, you will have to manaully juggle the load between the two.  Stephen has recommended doing that over a single RAID0 volume because if a drive goes bad, you'll only lose the data on the one, not both.  I agree with that recommendation unless manual space juggling is just out of the question.  With multiple computers to back up, you shouldn't have an issue doing the juggling.

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