[PLUG] Raid confusion

[John Jason Jordan]

On Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:40:39 -0700
Tom <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com> dijo:

>Raid 0 is striping - it combines the disk space from 2 or more disks to
>larger volume - obvious disadvantage is you loose all data on any disk
>failure and at RAID0 creation.
>If you want the combined disk space from 2 disks and do not care about
>redundancy - just add the disk to your Synology filer, add it to disk
>group, create JBOD volume and you are done or you can create new volume
>and export it separately. In the event one of your disks failing, the
>data on the second one are normally accessible either in the filer or
>as ext4 filesystem.
>I would think that using your Synology filer is better, safer and more
>reliable way to go than some exotic USB enclosure. Feel free to bring
>your filer + disk to PLUG clinic to get help.

Considering the problems I am having finding a reliable 2-bay USB
enclosure with Raid I am revisiting the idea of just getting a second
Synology.