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Have a new WD My Book Duo with two 6 GB drives that I bought to use a mirrored RAID system. I'm a photographer and plan to use this as my on-site backup system. While I work on computers when needed, I'm not deeply versed in hard-drive mechanics. I've certified and initialized the drive. Now I want to make it RAID 1 system.
But I can't find so step-by-step instructions for how to do this. Not in SoftRAID's help menus, nor on this forum. I'm a bit baffled that this information isn't more readily available. Hoping someone here can help.
I tried to create volumes, hoping I could figure things out as I went, but softraid tells me I can't create a raid system with the drive because it's seeing it as a single drive, not two.
I have no idea how to fix this and find myself wishing for a simpler process. Any help is appreciated.
I'm on a Mac using El Cap.
Posted : 08/06/2016 1:17 am
You need to go to WD's site and find out if it is possible to set the drive as JBOD mode. This is not possible to do with OS X or SoftRAID.
Once you change the RAID mode of the enclosure to non RAID, then you can create a Mirror easily enough.
The videos we created really make it simple:
Posted : 08/06/2016 1:20 am
I am new and trying to set up a 250gb and 299gb ext HDD as RAID disks. I am being told the largest mount of data I have available on the disks is 18.6MB. I have converted these disks to RAID volumes. What the heck to I need to do to get these set up? The help system is less than intuitive.
Posted : 05/07/2016 5:58 pm
I suspect what you have done so far is convert them to SoftRAID format, but that is not a RAID volume.
Try this:
copy all the data onto the 250GB volume.
Initialize the other disk.
"Convert" the remaining volume to a mirror.
Posted : 05/07/2016 6:43 pm
I suspect what you have done so far is convert them to SoftRAID format, but that is not a RAID volume.
Try this:
copy all the data onto the 250GB volume.
Initialize the other disk.
"Convert" the remaining volume to a mirror.
Posted : 05/07/2016 7:19 pm
Both disks are empty. I will try as you suggested. I assume the 250gb disk is NOT a mirror. What format should it be?
Posted : 05/07/2016 7:21 pm
SoftRAID tells you the volume type in the volume tile. It probably says "non RAID".
BTW: Be careful to understand the difference between disks and volumes. The volumes are empty, meaning no data? then make it simple: initialize both disks with SoftRAID and create a mirror (RAID 1) volume.
No need to use convert.
Posted : 05/07/2016 8:07 pm
I think it worked! I now have one new volume from 2 disks. When I mount it, I can read and write to it. A different paradigm. My first experience with RAID.
Posted : 05/07/2016 8:42 pm
