RAID Storage Done Right In ReadyNAS We are often spending time on forums trying to convince NAS owners and storage users to ALWAYS implement RAID level 1 or above to protect their data from hard drive failure. (Remember RAID 0 is not “RAID” at all, nothing redundant about it!) The reason is that, eventually, all [...]
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Disk Failure On Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2 Plus – No Data Lost
When a hard drive fails it usually means data loss (since last backup, anyway), UNLESS you have properly configured redundant hard drives. With a Netgear ReadyNAS server, X-RAID or X-RAID2 is the easy choice to provide data redundancy. When the hard drive failed in our ReadyNAS Ultra 2 Plus we lost no data because X-RAID2 [...]
The Problem With Workstation RAID
Lost Data, Corrupt Data, Cannot Transfer RAID Array I spend some time on network storage forums and I frequently see threads regarding workstation RAID and lost data, RAID corruption or, why-oh-why do they even use it, RAID 0 problems. RAID on a workstation, i.e. normal PC running a non-server version of Windows, is NOT recommended. [...]
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