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Hi All
I currently own a DNS 323 with 1 Samsung 500 GIG drive in it.
Now, it has gotten to that time where I have to add another and I would like to run them in RAID 0 (combined together).
My question is, if I add in the other hard drive will the web gui ask me to format both of them for RAID 0?
Also do any people on this forum have multiple dns 323?
Thanks
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I think that the only way that you can avoid formatting your old disk is to choose the "Standard" disk configuration (2 seperate disks). You could try JBOD (spanned), and press cancel if it warns that you are about to loose your data - let me know;-)
RAID0 has no performance advantage over the other modes, but makes your data more fragile. My preference would be Standard mode, but if you don't want your space split between disks, then JBOD. The advantage of choosing seperate disks is that it is easy to transfer them to some other computer or device if the DNS-323 fails.
Assuming that you choose seperate disks, I've read warnings on this site that sometimes the DNS-323 formats the wrong disk by mistake when you put a new one in, so if you don't want to backup your data, make sure to take your existing disk during the format operation.
http://dns323.kood.org/forum/t1235-form … drive.html
Or maybe it doesn't
http://dns323.kood.org/forum/t1335-Form … -disk.html
but be careful anyway :-)
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Assuming you're using the web admin interface, you cannot change the disk configuration without reformatting the disks.
It may be possible, if you have the appropriate linux skills and fun_plug to move from a single disk to a RAID1 configuration - it's certainly possible to do the reverse - but not RAID0, since the data is written to the disks in a different format.
Since you're asking this question - I assume there is data on the existing disk that you wish to preserve.
Please be aware that with a RAID0 configuration failure of either disk WILL result in the loss of all of the data contained in the array. I would suggest that you not use a RAID0 array for data storage, and, since there has been found to be no performance advantage to a RAID0 array on this device, I would question the rationale behind using RAID0.
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I agree with all of the above. I've stuck with the "standard" configuration so I can take my disks out of the 323 and put it into another (or a Linux PC), just in case the 323 hardware fails. I have two DNS-323 units currently, and I've been able to move disks between them only if they're in standard mode. In other words, when I tried JBOD, or any of the RAID configurations, it always asked me to reformat if I moved a disk from one unit to the other.
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