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Author Topic: Question if the DNS-323 fails and not the hard drive.  (Read 6378 times)

markus_g

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Question if the DNS-323 fails and not the hard drive.
« on: May 15, 2008, 05:57:34 PM »
Hello,

I have been following this forum for a while as I am looking at getting a DNS-323 to run in raid 1 mode.

My question is if the DNS-323 ever fails can I pull off the data by putting one of the hard drives into a PC or will the hard drive only work with a replacement DNS-323.

I do plan to continue to do backups onto DVD but just asking as it would be quicker to recover from the harddrive than the backups.

Regards,

Markus.



« Last Edit: May 15, 2008, 07:15:46 PM by markus_g »
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fordem

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Re: Question if the DNS-323 fails and not the hard drive.
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2008, 08:25:22 PM »
The DNS-323 uses a linux ext2 file system - you can connect the drive to a PC running linux, or even Microsoft Windows, if you install the ext2ifs installable file system - which you can download here.
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RAID1 is for disk redundancy - NOT data backup - don't confuse the two.

markus_g

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Re: Question if the DNS-323 fails and not the hard drive.
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2008, 02:32:53 AM »
Quote from: fordem on May 15, 2008, 08:25:22 PM
The DNS-323 uses a linux ext2 file system - you can connect the drive to a PC running linux, or even Microsoft Windows, if you install the ext2ifs installable file system - which you can download here.

Thanks for the info.

Regards,

Markus.
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bspvette86

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Re: Question if the DNS-323 fails and not the hard drive.
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2008, 04:56:45 AM »
Fordem,
THANKS!

Regards,
K
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mig

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Re: Question if the DNS-323 fails and not the hard drive.
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2008, 07:13:16 AM »
One way to get a temporary Linux machine, is to use a "Linux Live CD" such as Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.org)
This boot CD will run Linux, off the CD - leaving the original OS hard drive untouched.
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