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Readynas RN516 Non-raid setup
Hello,
I reciently recomended to a friend to get a readynas. So he went to the local shop and they set it up with two drives which they told him would operate as two seperate volumes on his network - he wants maximum storage space and isnt interest in raid for backup as all the data is replaceable.
I was unaware that it was even possible to set up the volumes as individual drives on the network... and after reading what literature I could, im thinking the people that sold it to him have no idea what they are doing.
So if you could please confirm, that the RN516 will raid the drives no matter what?
Also, they changed the password for him and got it wrong and the recovery isnt working (im guessing it needs an e-mail address whis isnt entered). Is there someway way to recover the password or reset the unit?
Thanks.
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Go to Volumes, click on the X-RAID button, confirm you wish to disable X-RAID, select the volume and the settings wheel and click destroy.
Create the volumes you want and restore your data from backup.
You could do an OS Re-install: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/23005/~/how-do-i-access-the-boot-menu-on-my-readynas-316,-516-or-rn716%3F
Cheers. It turns out the people in the shop didn't know that without the raid if one drive fails he would lose all the data. They thought he would just lose the data on that drive. I convinced him running the raid was a better option.
If you create a separate volume for each disk if a disk fails only the data on the volume that uses that disk is lost. It all depends on how you configure things.
I agree that using RAID is a better option. Regardless of whether you use RAID or not for the data volume if important data is primarily stored on the NAS you should backup that data. No important data should be stored on just the one device.
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