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Author Topic: Adding additional HDD to DLink-321  (Read 3804 times)

ultraloveninja

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Adding additional HDD to DLink-321
« on: September 22, 2010, 07:59:22 AM »
Hello -

I want to add a second HDD to my321 and RAID the two together, but I don't want to run the risk of wiping out the 1st HDD.

Anyone done this before without any issues?  Also, what the best RAID setup to use? 

Thanks!
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gunrunnerjohn

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Re: Adding additional HDD to DLink-321
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2010, 11:27:20 AM »
Backup ALL the data first!  Truthfully, you should have a separate backup of any data that you value, so I shouldn't have to say this.

RAID-1 is the only RAID level that really makes sense here, you get a single drive failure protection.  RAID-0 or JBOD will lose all the data if either drive fails.

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Remember: Data you don't have two copies of is data you don't care about!
PS: RAID of any level is NOT a second copy.

ultraloveninja

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Re: Adding additional HDD to DLink-321
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2010, 11:29:33 AM »
Ok, cool.


Thanks for the info!
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