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The 2308 utility seems to allow me to exit after starting the build without warning that the process will stop. Doing so takes it back through POST and boots into windows from my SSD system drive which is not part of the array. In fact the SSD drive is cotrolled by the 6 channel Sata controller...

Also. Is there a utility to monitor the build progress from Win10? My OS is on an SSD drive and thus independent of the array.

purpose is what you would expect. Mass storage on home network. I’ve used Raid 10 for years, suffered three drive failures and always able to rebuild. It’s fast, redundant, and reliable. Building another in a Workstation box. This is a 12TB array.

I’m trying to create a Raid 10 volume using LSI 2308 Config utility in BIOS setup. Does the process of creating the volume also format all four drives or must i do a low level format first? I understand it takes about 5 days. thanks.

True that is. Thanks again.

You're right that it is not a backup in the strictest sense. But having a 100% redundancy in Raid 10 is almost better with respect to drive failures. The odds of three simultaneous drive failures is very low. And the benefits of Raid10 are significant. First, my data redundancy is real time...

Perhaps the solution is to replace the two drives I want from the NAS with the two new drives I bought and let the NAS rebuild the array one at a time. Then I can take those two drives and reformat for the Windows system so I have the four matched drives. Once the new RAID 10 is formatted in...

So when converting a two-disk Raid 0 to a 4-disk Raid 10, is all data lost?

I want to move 2.23 TB of data from a NAS Raid10 to a WIN10Pro raid store. I have 4 new drives and the four drives in the NAS with my data. But I ultimately want two of the currently installed drives in the NAS to be part of the new Win10Pro array. Can I copy the data to a two-disk Raid0...

I do not have a backup of the NAS elsewhere. What I do have is four 3TB drives that can somehow serve this purpose during migration. Two of the drives in the NAS are exact matches for the two brand new drives I have. These are Deskstar NAS 3TB drives. I bought 2 new drives not realizing they...

I have a QNAP T469L NAS with four 3TB drives configured in Raid 10 array, yielding about 5.4 TB of usable data space. It currently has 2.23 TB of data stored. The system does ok, but the NAS is maxed out at 3GB of RAM and uses an Intel Atom processor. Thus very weak in horsepower. My plan is...