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What drive pool/RAID option is best for a home media server with uneven drive sizes?
I am building a DIY home server NAS with a DAS and Proxmox and don't need enterprise-grade redundancy. I am happy to use something other than Proxmox, I just like how easy it is to use containers and ...
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Can I set JBOD and RAID10 at the same time on the NAS?
I am looking to buy ASUSTOR's FS6712X NAS, and 12 of 2TB NVME SSD and now have a question about the RAID settings.
Is it possible to set JBOD and RAID10 at the same time? So like having 12TB capacity ...
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Can I access data from single HDD of RAID-1 (Software based RAID)?
I had a machine running Linux Server (Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS) on a M.2 NVMe SSD, and have connected 2 four TB NAS HDD with software based RAID-1 configuration (Linux RAID1 and formatted as EXT4 partition)....
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What happens when a URE is encountered during a RAID rebuild?
My current NAS (Synology 8x10TB) is near capacity and I'm looking to buy another one (8x22TB) ASAP.
After reading an alarming amount of articles when purchasing the first one about how RAID 5 was ...
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Moving from Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 to a different manufacturer
my Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 has died, problem with the power and/or power supply, so I want to move the 4 drives set up in RAID 5 to another NAS. I want to move to a different manufacturer so what is ...
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Why is my RAID 1 NAS (WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra) reporting RAID health "degraded" after replacing one disk and RAID rebuild?
I have a WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra NAS, almost 6 years old, and got a red light on it recently, indicating a disk problem. The NAS web dashboard reported one of the disks is bad, so I bought a replacement ...
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Faulty disk replaced but not visible in RAID 1
I have an old NAS called Netgear Stora. It has two SSD drives in RAID1. Unfortunately one of the drives started to light red on the cover and it appeared faulty (also it started to sound very noisy ...
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How exact do I need to be about replacing disks like-for-like in a RAID 1 NAS? Can I replace a disk with one of greater capacity?
I want to replace one of the disks in my NAS, which currently contains two 6TB disks, arranged in a RAID 1 array. Do I need to replace with a disk of exactly the same size? If "it depends," ...
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Is removing the disks from readynas duo v1 and reconnecting them after performing a factory reset likely to cause data loss?
As mentioned in the topic, ı want to remove disks then perform factory reset to clear mistaken configuration and lastly insert the disks back. Is there any possible data loss chance in this operation?
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Can I swap between two RAIDs on one NAS?
Weird question, confuses Google, not sure where to ask. I want to buy a Synology DS923+ NAS enclosure and load it up with 4 RAIDed drives. Then I'd like to remove those 4 drives and put them away, ...
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Does multi storage pools make sense to avoid more damage from a bad disk?
I am a beginner of NAS(and its hardwares), and I get some basic knowledge about RAID from Synology's guidebook. There are many tutorials taught me how to use my hard drive devices to create the ...
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Restoring/Accessing Synology Raid 1
I was recently asked to try to restore the data from a raid on a synology NAS. The raid consists of 2 disks of 2TB in size. It is a raid 1.
From what I was told, One of the drives has failed and the ...
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How to get new hard drives into a QNAP NAS and transfer the old data from static volume
I want to make sure this plan works.
Existing setup: 2-bay QNAS NAS drive containing two 1TB drives. No RAID. One drive is a "Static Volume" and one is a "Legacy Volume" (from an ...
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Upgrading WD Mycloud EX2 Ultra NAS Drives
I have a Mycloud Ex2 Ultra with 2x2TB NAS drives configured in RAID 1, with a total of 1TB of storage used. Recently tried to upgrade the drives to 6TB because I intend to use the NAS for much more ...
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Install NAS OS in data disk array instead of separate disk
I would like some help with my personal NAS setup.
Instead of installing the NAS OS in a separate disk, as most NAS OS documentation suggest, I am looking to install it in the data disk array instead, ...
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