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What is the default X-RAID?
Hey everyone,
I just picked up a RN104 and setting it up right now, but had a question regarding the RAID setup.
I have 2x2TB drives. RAID is completely new to me, but ideally I plan on using the RN104 to store pics/videos/documents one 1 drive and use the 2nd drive for mirror/redundancy. This way, if the 1st drive fails, I will still have the mirror.
From what I'm reading, i would need a RAID-1 for that to happen. Now, when I check my volumes on my RN104, it says RAID (RAID 1), but it also has X-RAID turned on on the right hand side. I'm not sure what X-RAID is, but I have 1 questions:
1. Does this mean the default RAID is RAID-1 and my 2nd drive is acting as a redundancy as part of the X-RAID config?
2. Is it possible to store other files on my RN104 (e.g. Music), but not have it mirrored? In other words, can I setup folders that are not mirrored on the 2nd drive?
Hope this makes sense and thanks for the help!
J-
I just picked up a RN104 and setting it up right now, but had a question regarding the RAID setup.
I have 2x2TB drives. RAID is completely new to me, but ideally I plan on using the RN104 to store pics/videos/documents one 1 drive and use the 2nd drive for mirror/redundancy. This way, if the 1st drive fails, I will still have the mirror.
From what I'm reading, i would need a RAID-1 for that to happen. Now, when I check my volumes on my RN104, it says RAID (RAID 1), but it also has X-RAID turned on on the right hand side. I'm not sure what X-RAID is, but I have 1 questions:
1. Does this mean the default RAID is RAID-1 and my 2nd drive is acting as a redundancy as part of the X-RAID config?
2. Is it possible to store other files on my RN104 (e.g. Music), but not have it mirrored? In other words, can I setup folders that are not mirrored on the 2nd drive?
Hope this makes sense and thanks for the help!
J-
3 Replies
- 1. Yes. However if you add an additional disk using X-RAID it will automatically expand to a three disk RAID-5 array
2. For that you would need to disable X-RAID. You can't pick and choose whether part of a disk is used for e.g. a RAID-1 volume. However you can create e.g. a separate volume for each disk.
What RAID level you choose it is important that you backup your data. RAID-1 is great, but it doesn't protect you against multiple disk failures, fire, flood, theft etc.
Welcome to the forum! - Thanks for the quick response!
So if I wanted the option to add 2 additional drives down the road (disk 3 & 4), but have disk 4 become a mirror of disk 3 (instead of RAID-5)...
1. is this possible?
2. If yes, what do I need to do? - Under Volumes click on the X-RAID button and confirm you wish to disable X-RAID.
Add the disks and create the additional volume you want.
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