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Serveral disk volumes or just a big one
Hi, I bought a ReadyNAS 3200 two months ago. It's a big monster but easy to use. I'm just using the last 8 slots for a big RAID 5 4 x 2GB Hitachi hard drives. I am using just one big volume and left ...
Hi, thanks for your answer. The idea around all this is not to switch trays every day, is just to have the possibility to jump to a new array of 4 disks after the current one is running out of space.
My goal is to have 3 different arrays of 4 HD each, I'd just want to know if by doing so I'll loose performance.
What is faster: 1 big array of 8 HD in RAID 5 or (2) arrays of 4 HD each? - always using (2) netwoerk connections -
Thanks again,
My goal is to have 3 different arrays of 4 HD each, I'd just want to know if by doing so I'll loose performance.
What is faster: 1 big array of 8 HD in RAID 5 or (2) arrays of 4 HD each? - always using (2) netwoerk connections -
Thanks again,
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