Multiple Bay NAS, no RAID - 1 drive or multiple drives

[csc12345678]

Hi !


My current NAS, if I slot in the 2nd HDD, I can only have RAID or Linear 2. Linear 2 says that the 2 HDD will be combine as one to increase the capacity. This means that if one drive fail, the whole combined drive is affected.

I'm thinking of getting ASUS NAS. I wonder is this the same for ASUS ? Could I get 2 independent drives instead ? Just like having 2 HDD in a PC.


Thanks.

 

[octacon]

Hi !


My current NAS, if I slot in the 2nd HDD, I can only have RAID or Linear 2. Linear 2 says that the 2 HDD will be combine as one to increase the capacity. This means that if one drive fail, the whole combined drive is affected.

I'm thinking of getting ASUS NAS. I wonder is this the same for ASUS ? Could I get 2 independent drives instead ? Just like having 2 HDD in a PC.


Thanks.

Normally people buy nas is for redundency and scaling ( expansion), to raid it in Raid 1 or above , because any harddisk fail , your data is still intact ( of course with some overhead depending on how you raid it).