New Linkstation Owner Very Very Confused over RAID 0/1 - please help!

[therosk83]

Now, I understand I will look like a complete idiot here.  But I bought a Linkstation LS-WX4.0TL Duo with the intention of putting all my music and then burning all my CDs onto a drive to access from my Sonos speakers, and have a bit more free space for my laptop. 

 

Now the whole purpose was to have RAID 1 so the music could be mirrored, but I have no idea whether it comes packaged in RAID 1, or whether I need to set this up.  I've looked through the manual but being massively rubbish at computers/slightly stupid, I can't really tell whether it is in RAID 1 and/or how to set it up if it isn't.  If anyone can help me with some advice here I'd really appreciate it.  I have my music copied across already, but understand that changing it will wipe it (this is fine).  The NASNavigator doesn't seem to be too clear on this.

[therosk83]

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Here is a screenshot of my Navigator if this helps. 

[tomwil]

You are in RAID 0 mode.

 

[therosk83]

So I just delete the RAID Array and then create a new one in Raid 1?  Thank you for responding, it is hugely appreciated.

[davo]

Yes, delete the raid0 and create a raid1. Best in mind when you create the raid1 it will do a raid check and can take 18 - 24 hours to complete.

[therosk83]

Thank you very much both.  Final thing - I've started putting the files across immediately in spite of the 18 hour wait for the check, will this be OK?

[davo]

Ideally you should wait until the RAID check has completed before adding data, doing so before it finishs can in some cases corrupt the RAID.

[drmemory]

It sounds like you are moving these files from your computer to the LS-W, when going to delete the files on the computer.  This will not be a backup. You need to have files in two separate places to be a backup. A LS-W is not a backup if the files aren't somewhere else as well.