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RN102 setting Raid 0 to get 1+1 or 1&1
Just got a RN102 and would like to set up the two disks as either Raid 0 across both or two seperate network drives. Currently RN102 is building some Raid 1 setup with a few hours to go. Can I st...
Thank you for your reply.
The RN102 is set in Raid 1 and I cannot get the syncing to stop even after switching from X-Raid to Flex-raid. What do I do next?
I'm running Raidar under OSX10.8.5 and Safari.
Switch to flexraid and destroy the volume.
Then create a new one in the mode that you want. Ideally call one of the volumes data.
Like Vandermerwe, I don't recommend creating a single RAID-0 volume that spans more than one disk. It is too fragile.
Thanks for your input.
I've setup two seperate drives but I will add that I'm running an old NAS Duo in Raid 0 across both drives 24/7/365 for the last six years without a problem...
JabbaTheCat wrote:
...I'm running an old NAS Duo in Raid 0 across both drives 24/7/365 for the last six years without a problem...
My duo v1 ended up in that mode also some years ago, and I decided to leave it. Earlier this year a drive failed, and of course I lost all my data. Since it was one of two backups, it was not a problem to lose it.
I installed another disk, and set the unit up again as jbod. Now if a disk fails I'll lose half the data, but the other half will still be there.
If the odds of a failing disk are 10% per year (just picking a number to make the point), then on average:
-With jbod, on average you lose 100% of your data every 10 years (1/2 your data every 10 years, but on both disks).
-With spanning RAID-0, on average the volume fails every 5 years, so you lose 100% of your data every 5 years.
So the data loss rate approximately doubles.
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