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X-raid vs. X-raid2
Should I consider updating my 3 current NAS to use X-RAID2 (see sig below)? OK. From the gracious help of Vanderwerwe and StephenB, I have brought back online my old Duo-v2. I chose to ?format/char...
@mdgm / @StephenB,
OK guys! I was so close to grasping what you shared. Then a couple of new posts, some confusion, and I'm back in the toolies! LOL! Mdgm, thanks for the vote for XRAID2. That is how I've leaned since learning about it. I asked because I am thinking of re-characterizing my Ultras as XRAID2. Unless there is some way in RAIDar/setup to query how they were set up 2 years back! I've long lost the notes for installing them. I know, stupid! :slap:
I've got 'vertical expansion' down solid now. With my 3 2-drive units I do vertical expansion via putting in 2x 1TB drives (1 at a time, allowing for resync time!)
I'll think more about 'horizontal expansion' because I see this as truly only providing 'redundancy' in a RAID system. Like 1 volume spread across 2 drives. I want to say a mirrored array, and/or RAID1 (but I could be wrong) which I do use on all my NAS's. To me this means everything recorded on drive 1 is duplicated on drive 2. So, even though each 500GB drive is really only 465GB logical, and, that the 2 drives together are really part of a 'fully-redundant' 465GB NAS Volume. Well, minus the overheads. OK? That is my comprehension of the PFM of RAID-mirrored. As I do not have 4-drive NASs, I would rather accept that HE and VE could take place by adding drive 3 and then drive 4. Luckily, I do not have to be concerned with this yet ATM. 2-drive NASs are all I can sorta grasp just now. If in the future, I move to 4-drive platforms, I will crawl back for more schooling, OK? I do so appreciate all your time and shares.
OK guys! I was so close to grasping what you shared. Then a couple of new posts, some confusion, and I'm back in the toolies! LOL! Mdgm, thanks for the vote for XRAID2. That is how I've leaned since learning about it. I asked because I am thinking of re-characterizing my Ultras as XRAID2. Unless there is some way in RAIDar/setup to query how they were set up 2 years back! I've long lost the notes for installing them. I know, stupid! :slap:
I've got 'vertical expansion' down solid now. With my 3 2-drive units I do vertical expansion via putting in 2x 1TB drives (1 at a time, allowing for resync time!)
I'll think more about 'horizontal expansion' because I see this as truly only providing 'redundancy' in a RAID system. Like 1 volume spread across 2 drives. I want to say a mirrored array, and/or RAID1 (but I could be wrong) which I do use on all my NAS's. To me this means everything recorded on drive 1 is duplicated on drive 2. So, even though each 500GB drive is really only 465GB logical, and, that the 2 drives together are really part of a 'fully-redundant' 465GB NAS Volume. Well, minus the overheads. OK? That is my comprehension of the PFM of RAID-mirrored. As I do not have 4-drive NASs, I would rather accept that HE and VE could take place by adding drive 3 and then drive 4. Luckily, I do not have to be concerned with this yet ATM. 2-drive NASs are all I can sorta grasp just now. If in the future, I move to 4-drive platforms, I will crawl back for more schooling, OK? I do so appreciate all your time and shares.
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