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the volume data is damaged
Happy Easter to all! I had one hard disk failure on my Readynas Ultra 2 (while on Raid 0). I have formatted both hard disks, sent back the fault one, intalled the lates OS 6.X firmware, rebuilt my...
RAID is not a backup, and it is risky to trust your data to a single device. RAID volumes sometimes fail, and NAS can malfunction in a variety of other ways that can compromise your data.
alphapapa wrote: Since I have a Raid 1 config in place, don't I have already a back up established?
If I remove the disk 1, format while testing it or even replace it, shouldn't everything be restored once I put a disk back in the slot one?
Why I need a second back up?
So everything "should" be restored once you replace the disk, but "should" is an important qualifier. There are other possibilities for loss in the bigger picture (user error, fire, theft, and the like). So I recommend backing up to a different device (and personally I also back up to a cloud service for disaster recovery).
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