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Bruce_In_Philly
Jan 04, 2015Aspirant
RN102 - Raid 1 vs X Raid and recovery
Hello, thanx for you help. I have been a ReadyNas owner and user for a long time... now setting up a RN102 with two 3 TB drives for a friend and this is my first experience with a two drive system. ...
mdgm-ntgr
Jan 04, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
The drives are mirrored however it is using md raid and BTRFS. The array can easily be mounted using a Linux machine with a recent kernel, mdadm and btrfs-progs installed.
The potential for chassis failure is not the only reason to backup data. Don't rely on being able to remove drives, hook up to PC and recover data that way.
For your Sparc X-RAID array you could have used an ordinary x86 Linux machine and tried the instructions here: http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306
Apart from chassis failure there are other possible problems e.g. fire, flood, theft, multiple disk failures etc. Backups are important.
The potential for chassis failure is not the only reason to backup data. Don't rely on being able to remove drives, hook up to PC and recover data that way.
For your Sparc X-RAID array you could have used an ordinary x86 Linux machine and tried the instructions here: http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306
Apart from chassis failure there are other possible problems e.g. fire, flood, theft, multiple disk failures etc. Backups are important.
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