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Title: Using WD drives w Advanced Formatting Technology in 321 as JBOD?
Post by: zorro2U on March 28, 2011, 08:35:26 AM

Since I am not able to use my 1TB WD WD1001FALS drives in my DNS-321 in a raid configuration, has anyone used them as JBOD in a 321?  Thanks for any responses.  Z

Title: Re: Using WD drives w Advanced Formatting Technology in 321 as JBOD?
Post by: Doogie123 on April 28, 2011, 05:46:13 PM

Desktop / Consumer RAID Environments - WD Caviar Green Hard Drives are tested and recommended for use in consumer-type RAID applications (RAID-0 /RAID-1) this is from WDs website.

I am running 2 WD20EARS in a raid 0 and all is well atm.  Been running 2 months..  One prob is supposed to be in a raid one if one drive fails and can't work thru a rebuild?  Not running raid 1, havent tried JBOD.. so who knows..  I do know the 321 doesnt use NFTS format and I am not that familar with it's formats.. 

Title: Re: Using WD drives w Advanced Formatting Technology in 321 as JBOD?
Post by: billy_kidd on May 09, 2011, 07:18:21 AM

same here, 2 TB ears' running fine

Title: Re: Using WD drives w Advanced Formatting Technology in 321 as JBOD?
Post by: JavaLawyer on May 09, 2011, 09:05:03 AM

Quote from: Doogie123 on April 28, 2011, 05:46:13 PM

I am running 2 WD20EARS in a raid 0 and all is well atm.  Been running 2 months..  One prob is supposed to be in a raid one if one drive fails and can't work thru a rebuild?

Quite the opposite.  If one drive on your RAID 0 array fails, you will loose all data (on both drives) without any recovery options.  RAID 1 provides redundancy, where if one drive fails you can restore the failed drive and reestablish the mirror.