Hello, I apologize in advance if this question has been answered in another post, but I currently have 2x2TB of storage in RAID 1 by default and am in the process of adding an additonal 2TB drive for 4TB total in a RAID 5 configuration. Should I go through the trouble of backing up this 2TB of dat…

The Sentinel uses (and only accepts) WD RE4 drives which have RAID-specific read error timeout values. This means that you stand much less of a chance of the RAID migration going poorly when moving to RAID 5. That said, backing up your data is never a bad idea when migrating any storage configurati…

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Geekstar December 19, 2012, 3:55pm 5

Yes and the rate I’m going I will need several.