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Rotating a third drive through the ReadyNAS for off-site stg
I've got a ReadyNAS 314 with two 4T drives (Western Digital WD40EFRX 4 TB WD Red, 3.5 inch, SATA III 5400 RPM 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM NAS Hard Drive). They're set up as RAID 1 with X-RAID turned on (the ...
No, it is a very bad idea.
Cordura wrote: 1) Is this a good idea?
The SATA connectors on the back of the hard drives are not intended to be repeatedly removed and inserted.
Also, every time you swap the drives you are rebuilding the raid array on the one you swapped out from scratch. This is a time consuming process, and RAID protection is lost while it is going on.
You are far better off getting two USB drives and rotating them.
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