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Readynas ultra 6 plus, selecting raid type
I have just upgraded from firmware 4.2.31 to OS 6. After upgrade, it is now doing a resync in xraid mode (Which is the default) My question is, the NAS currently has 6 3TB HDDs installed but will be ...
bolter wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I'm a bit dumb when it comes raidcset up. When you say Raid-5 is that the same as xraid 5. I think I will go with Raid-5
XRAID by default is single-redundancy. If all the disks are the same size, then it uses RAID-5. If the disks are different sizes, then it gets more complicated. But it always offers the same protection guarantee as RAID-5 - protection against loss of a single disk drive in the array.
It's what I use on my own systems.
Thanks for the reply. I'm a bit dumb when it comes raidcset up. When you say Raid-5 is that the same as xraid 5. I think I will go with Raid-5
bolter wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I'm a bit dumb when it comes raidcset up. When you say Raid-5 is that the same as xraid 5. I think I will go with Raid-5
XRAID by default is single-redundancy. If all the disks are the same size, then it uses RAID-5. If the disks are different sizes, then it gets more complicated. But it always offers the same protection guarantee as RAID-5 - protection against loss of a single disk drive in the array.
It's what I use on my own systems.
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