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Aspirant

Oct 23, 2015

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XRaid, XRaid-2, Raid-6, Raid-10 ????

Curious about something, on the RM3220 Volumes screen I see a box on the upper right with a green line through it that says X-RAID, under my graphical display of my NAS is shows the raid as RAID-6 (same goes for the display to the left that shows capacity and status).

So the question is... I didn't select X-RAID when I added my drives and turned the unit on for the first time, I keep seeing a lot of information about X-RAID 2 but the information from the GUI is confusion.

So which is it? Is this box running X-RAID or RAID-6, is X-RAID nothing more than RAID-6 and what about X-RAID2 when does that come into play?

Thanks,
Miguel

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cpu8088
Oct 23, 2015
X-RAID is Netgear’s eXpandable RAID technology that allows you to expand the size of your hard drive both horizontally (by adding more drives) and vertically (by replacing smaller drives with larger drives).

x-raid2 is just version 2. in some firmware although ver 2 is employed the term x-raid is still used to distinguish from flexi raid

x-raid is default u dont have to select when set up, and if u have 4 disk or more the system will default to raid 6

of course u can turn to flexi raid by destroying the volume and choose other raid levels or no raid such as jbod

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cpu8088
Virtuoso
Oct 23, 2015
X-RAID is Netgear’s eXpandable RAID technology that allows you to expand the size of your hard drive both horizontally (by adding more drives) and vertically (by replacing smaller drives with larger drives).

x-raid2 is just version 2. in some firmware although ver 2 is employed the term x-raid is still used to distinguish from flexi raid

x-raid is default u dont have to select when set up, and if u have 4 disk or more the system will default to raid 6

of course u can turn to flexi raid by destroying the volume and choose other raid levels or no raid such as jbod
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Oct 23, 2015
  cpu8088 wrote:
  
  x-raid is default u dont have to select when set up, and if u have 4 disk or more the system will default to raid 6
  
  Unless something just changed, the default xraid2 settings are single redundancy (RAID-1 with 2 disks, RAID-5 with more than 2). It will not default to raid 6, that needs to be set up manually.
  - radioguru6613
    Aspirant
    Oct 23, 2015
    StephenB wrote:
    cpu8088 wrote:
    
    x-raid is default u dont have to select when set up, and if u have 4 disk or more the system will default to raid 6
    
    Unless something just changed, the default xraid2 settings are single redundancy (RAID-1 with 2 disks, RAID-5 with more than 2). It will not default to raid 6, that needs to be set up manually.
    
    It did ... my screen shot is an out of the box unit freshly populated. It went right to 6 not 5.
- radioguru6613
  Aspirant
  Oct 23, 2015
  OK so it's RAID-6 XRAID as you can imagine it's a bit confusing when you see both phrases on screen and no mention of XRAID2 whatsoever.
  
  Miguel