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Author: | Spreadie [ Tue Jul 28, 2015 9:58 am ] |
Post subject: | NAS / Microserver software |
I recently got a HP Microserver and stuck the Synology Diskstation software on it, which seems to cover most of my needs, but I also have a two bay USB3 DAS box and it got me wondering about something. Is it possible to have a NAS system that formats the HDDs in the same way as a Windows OS? i.e. Allowing you to remove a disk and plug it into and read it from the USB box, and also allowing you to add a disk to a JBOD array on the Microserver without losing what is already on there? Barring the obvious step of installing a Windows OS on the Microserver. I'm sure there's a good answer to this, but my google fu is weak today. |
Author: | jonbwfc [ Tue Jul 28, 2015 1:19 pm ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Re: NAS / Microserver software | |||||||||
Almost certainly not how you're thinking, no. When you put a disk into a RAID array (even a JBOD) of some sort you're either using it to create a mirror (which would overwrite the data on the drive with what's already there) or making it part of a stripe set (which... etc). What you MIGHT be able to do it plug in the drive and tell the RAID controller it's a new partition/LUN and then add a mirror disk to that, which would create a RAID array and preserve the data on the drive. However that requires it to be a system that uses NTFS/FAT32 as it's basic filesystem, and no RAID boxes I know of do that - I'm almost 100% certain the Synology software won't. You could do it with the HP server using a windows OS with a software RAID. You might possibly be able to do it with windows DFS somehow, but I wouldn't begin to tell you how. Adding a drive into a JBOD array in a way that is non-destructive to the data already on the drive is a pretty unusual requirement. |
Author: | Spreadie [ Wed Jul 29, 2015 7:34 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: NAS / Microserver software |
Yeah it was just the outline of an idea. Looks like it'd be impractical - thanks for the information though, it is appreciated. |
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