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Raid-10 and raid-0
We would like to combine Raid-10 with Raid-0 on a readynas 4x 4-TB. How to achieve this?
maartenhoek wrote:
Hi,
I have a RN204 with 4 4TB disks. As an amateur photographer I would like to have my working files on one disk and back up on a second disk (raid 0).
The other two disk I would like to use as a time capsule for the various macbooks of 500gb each in the house + I would like to share music and some photo files here for all users.
How to achieve this on my NAS?
Thx for clarifying. You want some RAID-0 volumes and one RAID-1 volume (not RAID-10).
What you need to do is switch to flexraid. For instance, do a factory reset with 2x4TB in place, which will give you a RAID-1 volume. Switch to flexraid, and then hot-insert the remaining two disks. Select each disk, and create a new volume on it. That will give you three volumes - one for the 2-drive RAID-1 array, and one for each of the jbod disks.
I'd suggest having a second backup to a USB drive (or cloud storage), since a NAS failure could result in data loss/corruption on all disks. Also, look into the snapshot feature. That might also be useful to you (perhaps on the backup volume).
Note that just using XRAID would give you the same total space (12 TB) in one RAID-5 volume. You could still back up your working data to another share (though with a single volume, a second backup is even more important).
maartenhoek wrote:
We would like to combine Raid-10 with Raid-0 on a readynas 4x 4-TB. How to achieve this?
Start by telling us what you mean and maybe what you are trying to achieve.
RAID-10 requires a minimum of 4 disks and is already a combination of RAID-0 and RAID-1.
Hi,
I have a RN204 with 4 4TB disks. As an amateur photographer I would like to have my working files on one disk and back up on a second disk (raid 0).
The other two disk I would like to use as a time capsule for the various macbooks of 500gb each in the house + I would like to share music and some photo files here for all users.
How to achieve this on my NAS?
u can just create a single volume of raid 10 and create separate folders for photos, movies, music, backups for mac etc
even u use raid 10 u should have separate off line backup periodically to prevent fire, flood, theft and accidental deletion of files
maartenhoek wrote:
Hi,
I have a RN204 with 4 4TB disks. As an amateur photographer I would like to have my working files on one disk and back up on a second disk (raid 0).
The other two disk I would like to use as a time capsule for the various macbooks of 500gb each in the house + I would like to share music and some photo files here for all users.
How to achieve this on my NAS?
Thx for clarifying. You want some RAID-0 volumes and one RAID-1 volume (not RAID-10).
What you need to do is switch to flexraid. For instance, do a factory reset with 2x4TB in place, which will give you a RAID-1 volume. Switch to flexraid, and then hot-insert the remaining two disks. Select each disk, and create a new volume on it. That will give you three volumes - one for the 2-drive RAID-1 array, and one for each of the jbod disks.
I'd suggest having a second backup to a USB drive (or cloud storage), since a NAS failure could result in data loss/corruption on all disks. Also, look into the snapshot feature. That might also be useful to you (perhaps on the backup volume).
Note that just using XRAID would give you the same total space (12 TB) in one RAID-5 volume. You could still back up your working data to another share (though with a single volume, a second backup is even more important).
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