Hi! I have been using the Buffalo DriveStation Duo on Raid1
Recently a portable harddisk crashed and prompted me to be a little more worrying on my drives setup.
I have been using the DriveStation Duo with no issues so far.
I installed the accompanying software onto a PC, connect it to drive and change the raid setup to raid1 mirror.
I use the DriveStation mainly to backup work from my Mac labtops.
On Mac, i see the Drive Station as ONLY 1 Drive with 1TB in total. I had always assumed the 2 x 1TB on the DriveStation had been such that one is used as a full backup as what i wanted.
Now the Question:
1.How can i verify that indeed both drives are working and have a full set of duplicate data across them (From a noob point, couldn't 1 drive been spoil and disconnect, and i am happily thinking that it is on raid??)
2.And in the event of failure of one of the drives, how do i know it, and how can i recover it?
I tried to google it : http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=2024.0
and it seems that different product and manufactor have different ways of recovery....OMFG and i told RAID1 is simple and universal...=(
Also although i am using the Buffalo DriveStation Duo, it is NOT the one on the website:
http://www.buffalotech.com/products/desktop-hard-drives/drivestation/drivestation-duo-1
Preheps its the older ver, mine had only USB2.0 but had firewire connections, also "The drives are easily replaced by sliding them into their bays behind the removable front panel" I am almost pretty sure that this is not the case.... ( cause i had wanted to try and unplug e drives and connect to my desktop to see if i can see data on both drives)
Since we are on this topic,
My friend have the exact DriveStation Duo and had RAID1 it using the below method:
by bdegrande
| Feb 17, 2008, 07:55 PM |
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=434391
In short by using the RAID function in diskutilies on Mac
3. Am i correct to say that by using the default software i am setting up a hardware raid setup whilewise my friend by using the diskutilites is using a software raid? and with the following differences:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/raid-hardware-vs-raid-software.html
In short the hardware raid1 is faster.
All else the same i would then have prefer to use the RAID function in disk utiilies and i see that one can remove the raid setup and then tata, you have 2 drives appeared with exact info on both.....
That all, sorry if parts of it sounds stupid, just that with a failure on one drives i am getting ready phobic.....=(
Thanks