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talkingduck
Aug 19, 2012Aspirant
Readynas Duo V2 - Raid1 and xRaid2
I've been reading through a few posts here and the documentation(RAIDiator 5.3 SW Manual_3Jul12.pdf) and have a few questions about how to setup my RAID. I have a Duo V2 which means I have a maximu...
mdgm-ntgr
Apr 19, 2013NETGEAR Employee Retired
I don't think that manual is written well. Only X-RAID on the Sparc units (run RAIDiator 4.1.x or earlier) uses a dedicated parity disk. If either disk failed you could replace it and the array would rebuild.
X-RAID2 distributes the parity amongst the disks. It does not have a dedicated parity disk. X-RAID2 with two disks is making use of RAID-1.
X-RAID2 distributes the parity amongst the disks. It does not have a dedicated parity disk. X-RAID2 with two disks is making use of RAID-1.
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