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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-320 => Topic started by: fedweb on July 27, 2012, 07:19:05 AM
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I have been using my DNS-320 with only one 2TB drive installed for about 6 months. It is used as the backup for 3 laptops. I have just purchased a second 2TB drive and was looking to use it as a mirror of the first. Before installing the second 2TB drive, should I backup the first 2TB drive? I've read that if the a second drive is installed, the DNS-320 will format BOTH drives with of course, the loss of all data on the first drive which would defeat the object.
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Before you create a RAID-1, do you already have a backup of your data? RAID-1 provides redundancy, but is not considered a backup. ShareCenter - Data Backup vs. Redundancy (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=46509.0)
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Wow. A bit over my head.
I was just looking to find out if I could simply install a 2nd 2TB hard drive in the spare slot in my DNS-320 as an additional insurance against the 1st hard drive developing a fault and subsequently losing my existing backup data.
It was a question regarding whether with my existing DNS-320 set up which is configured with only one hard drive, I could simply pop in a second 2TB drive and reconfigure for RAID 1 and they would both mirror each other.
My fear was that the DNS-320 would format BOTH hard drives and the 1st hard drive which currently holds all the backup data, would be lost if I had not back that one up to yet another backup source.