Topic: Are my two hard drives mirroring?? (Read 2930 times)

Clarkers · « **on:** December 04, 2012, 11:58:53 AM »

Hi
I bought a DLINK sharecentre to centrally manage all my files. I have installed two hard drives, and I want them to mirror one another. I have loaded some test files onto to Volume_1, but these aren't appearing on Volume_2 when I look on file explorer in Wondows. Should the same files be in both drives? I would assume so...
So I logged onto the Dlink Sharecentre Manager, and it appears Vol1 hard drive is set to mirror (RAID1), whilst Vol2 is set to JBOD. I suspect that they aren't mirroring, and Volume-2 is set up as additional storage. Should I reconfigure the hard drives and start again?!!

Thanks in advance for help!

JavaLawyer · « **Reply #1 on:** December 04, 2012, 12:24:14 PM »

You need to configure both HDDs as part of the same RAID-1 (i.e. for mirroring). JBOD is a different HDD configuration that is unrelated to RAID-1.

JavaLawyer · « **Reply #2 on:** December 04, 2012, 12:26:34 PM »

Another point to consider is whether your data is backed up. RAID-1 (i.e. mirroring) is NOT a backup. Please read the following post: DNS-320 - Data Backup vs. Redundancy

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