RAID with JBOD

You would disable X-RAID, destroy the default volume and create the volumes you want. You could create a volume that uses just the one disk.

My hope was to have both.. a raid and a standalone drive? My other data would reside on the multi drive raid. Let's say I have one disk now...

I would disable X-Raid.
Insert new drive (2nd) - dedicated to iSCSI
Later insert a drive (3rd) matching the first drive

Then I could create a raid using drives one and three?

Well if some drive bays are empty, you could simply disable X-RAID, add a disk and create a new volume for the added disk. You can use a mixture of multiple drive and single drive volumes. Volumes don't have to all use the same RAID level.

OK. Thanks. I'll do some reading now that I believe it's possible.

One last silly question... since I would have different volumes the type of drive wouldn't be important as along as any in a RAID were compatible with each other? I would go Red with the RAID(s) and who knows what with the standalone.

It is still important that you use a compatible drive with the standalone disk. I would still use at least a RED for the standalone disk. Green disks are not suitable.

After some reading I'm left with one question which could be unsupported to a large degree. I guess it evolves around where and how the OS resides or doesn't...

Let's take for granted each device will have the same OS release. The first being a Legacy x86 device (say 6.2) and I bring it up with one drive. I turn off X-RAID2 and insert a new drive creating a second volume. The short question is... is this volume compatible with other devices running other chipsets? Such as say a RN102? Could it be inserted once the RN102 is up and running or is it dependent on firmware which supports the same processor architect?

Long story is I'm wondering if I can create a volume (outside of USB) which can be transferred to virtually any device as long as its on the same firmware level. I'm guessing no, but what the heck...

You can do this between OS 6 devices, if you transfer the disks into a unit with different architecture you would need to do so with its power off, then do an OS reinstall using the boot menu.

I am not certain whether you could take a disk from legacy unit and put it into any of the current line of devices.

Obviously you can't do this with only part of an array.

vandermerwe wrote:
You can do this between OS 6 devices, if you transfer the disks into a unit with different architecture you would need to do so with its power off, then do an OS reinstall using the boot menu.

Thanks. I didn't know this was possible. Presuming the data (partition) is untouched?

I am not certain whether you could take a disk from legacy unit and put it into any of the current line of devices.

That is the question... I thought you couldn't swap drives between chipsets without erasing them.

Well the current line of devices have several different architectures and the OS reinstall method works and preserves data and config.
What I don't know if there might be something different in the way disks from a legacy device behaved when moved even of they had OS 6 on them.

I must say that in general moving disks between units is not a good idea as a premeditated event. If it's being done in a crisis because of hardware failure then I think a backup is a simpler strategy. The data can then be restored to any device from backup.

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