I have a DS220+ with 2x 6TB drives in RAID. I used some bad RAM, and now the volume is read-only and won’t restore. I was resigned to backup the data, create a new volume, and restore the data, but I had an idea – will this work?: Basically, I use one of the two drives as its own backup. I pull out one drive and save it, I...
One reason I thought of this was that it’s taking forever to manually copy files from the corrupt volume to an external hard drive anyhow, and I trust the external drive less. It’s honestly not even that much data – I can’t imagine internally copying from one drive to another would take longer.
I have a DS220+ with 2 identical drives, configured as RAID, so just one volume. Everything was working great, but to access the new object-recognition in photos, I added RAM, which caused some corruption and now the volume is read-only and won’t repair itself (even after removing the RAM). So now I’m preparing to do an...
Can I restore my files from half my 2-drive RAID?
I have a DS220+ with 2x 6TB drives in RAID. I used some bad RAM, and now the volume is read-only and won’t restore. I was resigned to backup the data, create a new volume, and restore the data, but I had an idea – will this work?: Basically, I use one of the two drives as its own backup. I pull out one drive and save it, I...
Better to use 2 drives for RAID, or for Volume backup?
I have a DS220+ with 2 identical drives, configured as RAID, so just one volume. Everything was working great, but to access the new object-recognition in photos, I added RAM, which caused some corruption and now the volume is read-only and won’t repair itself (even after removing the RAM). So now I’m preparing to do an...
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