[PLUG] Raid confusion

benjamin barber starworks5 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 3 19:49:35 UTC 2017


you can use a software raid called ZFS, if you're doing it from the linux
subsystem, I'm not sure if it will work with the synology software.

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Most likely, yes.  The RAID (of any level) needs to be initialized,
> and that process will effectively wipe data on the attached physical
> devices.
>
> That said, there are some interesting RAID-like technologies that
> automatically expand across new devices, e.g. Drobo, acting like a
> hybrid of RAID and LVM.  I don't know if Synology NAS employs that or
> similar technology.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 10:44 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
> > If I start with one 8TB drive in my Synology NAS, and later add
> > another and set them up as Raid 0, does the striping to Raid 0 mean
> > that the data on the existing drive gets wiped out?
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