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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-323 => Topic started by: jeffnoone on January 10, 2008, 06:13:25 PM
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Have 2 500GB drives in the DNS-323
One is for HD video, the other is for HD music (eg Live Earth clips)
So can I build a HD library, where once (say) the video HD is full, I can catalogue contents, then swap out the video HD, replacing it with another 500GB drive to store/preserve clips
At a later time, can I swap back in the first video HD drive without formatting, or loosing contents?
Jeff
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As long as you run the unit with both drives formatted separately.. (so you get two external mountable shares), yes you could.
You'll have to shutdown, swap, restart.. but it should work.
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Thanks for reply
Once I have it filled up, will try this - I am running as two separate drives
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Related question -- if one is running in RAID 1, can one easily use the DNS-323 in a three drive scenario? Two live drives in the unit, with a third swapped offsite on a periodic basis as an offsite backup? As long as the drives are the same model, will this work, or would one need to reformat the "third" drive so that it was blank before inserting it into the DNS-323? Or is the unit smart enough to "take over" a drive that's inserted in an empty slot?
-W
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Related question -- if one is running in RAID 1, can one easily use the DNS-323 in a three drive scenario? Two live drives in the unit, with a third swapped offsite on a periodic basis as an offsite backup? As long as the drives are the same model, will this work, or would one need to reformat the "third" drive so that it was blank before inserting it into the DNS-323? Or is the unit smart enough to "take over" a drive that's inserted in an empty slot?
-W
This is not how RAID1 is intended to be used - if you do it, expect data loss.
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So what RAID# is intended to support something like this. Disappointed to hear this could not be done with the DNS-323.
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DNS-3200-20 should be the right product for you. The DNS-323 is geared a little more towards the home user and the feature set you are looking for is not available at this level. You should be looking for a device with atleast 3 bays and preferably 4 bays for higher RAID levels.
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No RAID level is.
The purpose of RAID (other than RAID0) is to reduce the impact of the downtime caused by a disk failure - it is not intended to be a means of backup.
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Good job fordem. I did not get that was talking about a back up.
[slowly backing out of conversation]......
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this conversation about RAID and backup never ends.. but i agree with fordem