[Leica] ReadyNAS Questions.....

[john at chiaroscuro.co.nz (John McMaster)]

Put at least 2 disks in and use X-RAID (this is on an NV+). It will create a
RAID 1 (mirror) with 2 (i.e lose 50% of storage), when you add a 3rd disk,
either originally or after a while, this will expand to a RAID 5 (striped
with redundancy) and you will get N-1 storage, i.e adding the 3rd HDD will
double your storage (3 disks total so 2 disks of storage). 

If you set it to RAID 1 then it will always be that with no option to expand
when more disks are added.

john

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> I am about ready to (finally) purchase one of these babies, but first
> some
> questions....
> Hoping some of you out there have experience....
> 
> Which RAID format should I use?  Raid I, 2,etc....  Is this setting
> done
> during setup of the box  on my computer?
> 
> Is there a preference for the NV models or the Ultra series?  Why?
> 
> Note: Windows platform, Vista 32 bit OS
>