Hi there,
I have been searching the net for some time to see how I could switch my 602T from raid-1 down to raid-0 to extend the data storage, but could not find any way to do it.
would anyone have a clue on how to do it without loosing any data ?
Thanks !
Cheers, Xavier
602T - switch from raid-1 to raid-0 without data loss ?
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Re: 602T - switch from raid-1 to raid-0 without data loss ?
Hi,
ASUSTOR NAS dose support online RAID level migration and capacity expansion for certain RAID levels. However to migrate from RAID 0 to RAID 1 is not supported.
In your case, you need to backup all the dates on your NAS and then reinitialize the NAS to Raid0 or single.
Please be aware of that that a RAID 0 stripes the data across both of its component hard drives, which about 20% to 30% faster than you would get by using a single hard drive or RAID 1. However, the downside is that it does not offer any sort of data protection and you may lose all the dates once a single driver failed.
For more information, please see our college below:
Introduction to RAID
http://download.asustor.com/college/en/ ... o_RAID.pdf
Online RAID Level Migration and Capacity Expansion
http://download.asustor.com/college/en/ ... ansion.pdf
ASUSTOR NAS dose support online RAID level migration and capacity expansion for certain RAID levels. However to migrate from RAID 0 to RAID 1 is not supported.
In your case, you need to backup all the dates on your NAS and then reinitialize the NAS to Raid0 or single.
Please be aware of that that a RAID 0 stripes the data across both of its component hard drives, which about 20% to 30% faster than you would get by using a single hard drive or RAID 1. However, the downside is that it does not offer any sort of data protection and you may lose all the dates once a single driver failed.
For more information, please see our college below:
Introduction to RAID
http://download.asustor.com/college/en/ ... o_RAID.pdf
Online RAID Level Migration and Capacity Expansion
http://download.asustor.com/college/en/ ... ansion.pdf
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Re: 602T - switch from raid-1 to raid-0 without data loss ?
Thanks a lot for the info.
Does it mean that both hard drives will be deleted (formatted) during the reinitialization process or will it just delete the configuration options ?
Thanks for the confirmation
Best, Xavier
Does it mean that both hard drives will be deleted (formatted) during the reinitialization process or will it just delete the configuration options ?
Thanks for the confirmation
Best, Xavier
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Re: 602T - switch from raid-1 to raid-0 without data loss ?
unfortunately, yes ...xaveee wrote: Does it mean that both hard drives will be deleted (formatted) during the reinitialization process
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Re: 602T - switch from raid-1 to raid-0 without data loss ?
RAID-0 offers no redundancy protection at all, so if you lose a disk you lose all of your data
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Re: 602T - switch from raid-1 to raid-0 without data loss ?
I see no practical reason why you would want to run RAID-0 on a NAS unless your use-case scenario is very specific.