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#1 2009-10-13 20:05:12
- gegtik
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How to go from RAID to JBOD?
Hi everyone,
I have been thinking about disabling the RAID functionality on my DNS-323 and instead use one disk as my dumping ground, with an rsync cron job carrying data over to the backup disk.
Does anyone know whether I can convert my RAID to a JBOD setup and if so what the easiest way to accomplish this without losing my data would be? Currently I have a RAID 0/1 setup.
Thank you!
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#3 2009-10-13 22:20:22
- gegtik
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Re: How to go from RAID to JBOD?
I am probably using the term JBOD incorrectly in that case -- I do want two independent disks to replace my RAID setup.
How can I best do this?
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#5 2009-10-13 23:30:44
- gegtik
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Re: How to go from RAID to JBOD?
Is there any way to do it which doesn't require me to buy a new 1TB drive for the sole purpose of backing up?
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#7 2009-10-14 04:14:43
- gegtik
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Re: How to go from RAID to JBOD?
thanks for being so patient; I am using RAID 1.
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#8 2009-10-16 00:11:54
- bjby
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Re: How to go from RAID to JBOD?
I amagine something like this could be done. Endresult being two independent disks not JOB.
1. Buy a external usb disk holder thingy
2. Move one disk into usb thingy
3. Fomat usb disk
4. copy data
5. format nas disk
6. copy data
7. move disk back to nas possibly reformat again (beware of dns323 format bugs)
Edit: You could skip the usb thingy and instead mash it into your pc.
Last edited by bjby (2009-10-16 00:17:56)
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#9 2009-10-16 00:16:30
- gegtik
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Re: How to go from RAID to JBOD?
So just for curiosity's sake, are you saying that if a drive is removed from the NAS, I'll still be able to read files off the one remaining drive in the RAID-1 configuration? There is no mandatory rebuild process before I can access files?
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#11 2009-10-16 06:51:25
- fordem
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Re: How to go from RAID to JBOD?
There's a much easier way to go from RAID1 to standard disks.
1 - shut unit down
2 - remove one disk (either one)
3 - power unit up
4 - format disk in unit
5 - shut unit down
6 - replace disk removed in step 2
7 - power unit up.
You now have two separate disks, one if which contains the original data.
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#12 2010-08-30 01:10:22
- phguk
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Re: How to go from RAID to JBOD?
I've just followed these steps (posted by Fordem). I'm running FW 1.08.
When the DNS-323 tries to format the single drive (that I did not remove cf. step 4) it stops at 1% giving me the following error: "Hard Drive(s) Formatting Failure. (Error Code:107)." I've tried a hard reset but this makes no difference. Any thoughts ?
Thanks Paul
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