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Raid 1 for 4 drives
Hi, This may be a dumb question but I cannot seem to find the answer online.. I have a readynas 104 and I want to set it up so HDD 1 and 2 are in RAID 1 and 3 & 4 are their own RAID 1. the ...
Yes . Raid 1 for one and two HDD , another Raid 1 for 3 and 4 HDD can be done . To do this , Need to Disable XRAID , Delete the Volume created (Make sure you have a backup of your data before doing this) . Select 1 & 2 HDD , Give a Volume name & Create . Select 3 & 4 Create another Raid 1 . (Let one volume sync be completed fully before creating the second since your device has less processor power to handle both) .
Thank you. Appreciate your response.
If you have apps installed, you'll also need to uninstall them before destroying the volume (reinstalling them after the new ones are created).
You'd have 50% more space with RAID-5 and a single volume (assuming all disks are the same size), and you could easily put the information in different shares.
The main benefits of two RAID-1 volumes are that the extra redundancy gives somewhat more protection from disk failures, and that data recovery (if you ever need it) would be simpler.
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