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[RN102] Jbod boot up problem
Hi, I bought the RN102 to upgrade from the previous ReadyNAS Duo. I'm running Win 7 sp 1 on a Zotac Ci320 nano. I setup the RN102 to run with Flex raid and JBOD configuration. I put in two disk ...
StephenB wrote: jbod is fine, popping disks in and out a lot is the bad idea. One reason is that the SATA connectors on the drive are not designed for frequent insertion/removal.
Well, I started almost 4 years ago with the Duo and 640GB HDDs, since then I had grown quite a lot with data. I have almost 3TB and growing.
It's not that I swap in and out HDDs that frequently. When I fill an HDD I put in a new one. Sometimes I have to retrieve what's on older disks, but that doesn't happen so frequently.
This is an exception, because I have to move everything from the old Duo to the new RN102. I just thought that Jbod suited me better because I thought that I would be more free, for example, to move files from disk to disk without having to move it first to another external source.
It seems I was wrong though.
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