RAID 1 for ReadyNAS Ultra 2

Limerick wrote:

Hello all, I have just received my ReadyNAS Ultra 2 and I wish to perform a simple RAID 1. But I would like to know it it will be possible, in cas of a hardware failure of the ReadyNAS, to take one of the 2 HDD and just plug into a PC and then find all my data. Or is there any controler or softaware which builds the RAID 1 that will require to put the HDD in a similar NAS in order to recover the data ? Thanks for your help, Lim.

The default XRAID-2 is RAID-1 on the two-slot units (on the larger units it expands to RAID-5 or RAID-6 as you add drives). The underlying file format is Linux (ext), so a Windows PC will not recognize the format without special tools. However, it can be done - if you search the forum, you will find some posts on the topic.

The main thing is that RAID is not a substitute for backup. Ideally you would maintain backups on drives formatted so you could read them on a standard PC.