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moving raid 1 drives to a new enclosure

Jun 14, 2012 10:24PM PDT

I have a d-link dns 323 and I need to switch enclosures as it is far too slow to access over the network. I want to change the two 1tb wd cav. green drives into a rocstor arcticroc 2t. I no longer need to access the enclosure via the network. Can I simply take the drives out of the dns 323 and put them in the rocstor, i dont want to format anything as I have 500 gb of images on the drives.thx

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More than likely won't work
Jun 15, 2012 2:22AM PDT

RAID is set up by it's own hardware/firmware and is dependent upon it to work. About the only way this does work is when moving to identical hardware. Sorry about that. It may be possible to set up the new enclosure and copy the data however.

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I find formatting to take less time than the backup/restore.
Jun 15, 2012 2:36AM PDT

Be aware that RAID can be treacherous and has been known to vanish if you move drives around like that. Be sure you have nothing you can't lose on there. That is, "We only lose what we don't backup."

Since network speeds are so slow, why bother with RAID?
bob