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alphapapa
Apr 05, 2015Aspirant
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...
alphapapa
Apr 06, 2015Aspirant
I wrote to WD support.
I will wait for them to reply before doing anything. As right now I don't have additional 3 TB where to store the back up of the back up.........
Anyway, your reply make sense but put me in a worried state.
So why should I bother to set my NAS in Raid 1? Maybe I should put it back to Raid 0, enjoy more space (almost 6 TB), and pair the NAS with an external 4 TB HD for the back up of "selected contenent" (150 euro for 4 TB WD My book....the 6 TB costs twice as much..).
This will avoid the 'single device' factor. Also the external will be formatted NTFS, and for what I have understood, that should be easier to recover data in case of falilure.
I will wait for them to reply before doing anything. As right now I don't have additional 3 TB where to store the back up of the back up.........
Anyway, your reply make sense but put me in a worried state.
So why should I bother to set my NAS in Raid 1? Maybe I should put it back to Raid 0, enjoy more space (almost 6 TB), and pair the NAS with an external 4 TB HD for the back up of "selected contenent" (150 euro for 4 TB WD My book....the 6 TB costs twice as much..).
This will avoid the 'single device' factor. Also the external will be formatted NTFS, and for what I have understood, that should be easier to recover data in case of falilure.
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