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Upgrade 2150 Readynas Duo to 2 TB drives
I have a Readynas Duo 2150 I purchased a few years ago. It's 500 Gb drive reached 90% full, so I wanted to upgrade the discs. I purchased two seagate drives which were on the approved hardware list. ...
"Please note that treating RAID as a backup is a very bad idea."
Yeah, I figured that out now. I thought that by simply taking out a disk and keeping it off site it would be a good backup idea. I had no idea that there was no way I could simply access that disk in anything other than a readynas or linux/sparc machine. Kind of an odd marketing decision I think. I had been recommending a readynas duo to other people thinking they could easily protect their data by simply swapping out a drive and keeping it safe. Now I have the unfortunate responsibility of telling them I was an idiot to assume a company marketing to a populace of 90% windows users that they would make the device use a system that made their back up copies completely incompatible with a windows pc. So, now that I know, how do I re re install the 2 tb disks so I have 4k block sizes instead of the incompatible 16k ones?(just in case!)
Yeah, I figured that out now. I thought that by simply taking out a disk and keeping it off site it would be a good backup idea. I had no idea that there was no way I could simply access that disk in anything other than a readynas or linux/sparc machine. Kind of an odd marketing decision I think. I had been recommending a readynas duo to other people thinking they could easily protect their data by simply swapping out a drive and keeping it safe. Now I have the unfortunate responsibility of telling them I was an idiot to assume a company marketing to a populace of 90% windows users that they would make the device use a system that made their back up copies completely incompatible with a windows pc. So, now that I know, how do I re re install the 2 tb disks so I have 4k block sizes instead of the incompatible 16k ones?(just in case!)
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