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Simple question: I have decided to replace my aging LaCie 5Big disk/RAID enclosure (which does not accept SSDs, as I discovered today) with a newer Thunderbay 6 model. As long as the used RAID disks do not change, would I risk losing anything or having to reformat everything if I move them to that new enclosure?
Thanks!
Posted : 28/01/2022 5:04 pm
I assume you have the LaCie in "JBOD" mode and SoftRAID sees all the disks. If so, yes. you can just move the drives over.
Posted : 28/01/2022 5:07 pm
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@softraid-support Nope, it's three disks in RAID 5 mode - two other disks are being used separately.
Posted : 28/01/2022 5:18 pm
You may be confused, if SoftRAID sees ALL the disks, then it is in JBOD mode.
If LaCie controls the disks, anotherwards, SoftRAID disk colume does not see the 3 disks, but just one, then it is controlled by hardware and you cannot move it to another enclosure
JBOD is a setting on the LaCie end. When you use hardware RAID, the computer cannot even see the drives behind the "LUN (like a virtual disk) that is the hardware RAID.
the easy way to know is if SOftRAID sees 5 disks. If it does, you are OK. If it sees "3", (the RAID and two disks), then it is hardware RAID and you cannot move the disks.
Posted : 28/01/2022 5:26 pm
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@softraid-support There is no confusion - I have created a RAID 5 array with 3 disks on SoftRAID, and it only sees those disks on the left column (on the right column there is the RAID 5 "Volume" reference with three green lines connected to those three disks. Other disks are autonomous and not part of the RAID. In fact, my LaCie cannot even create RAID 5 by itself.
This post was modified 2 years ago 2 times by ricardogf
Posted : 28/01/2022 5:37 pm
