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Can I take my ReadyNAS drive in Raid1 and plug it straight into new different machine?
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I would assume that I can just take my HDD out of my NAS (in raid1 mirror) and plug it into another enclosure and have it work off the bat but I'd like to make sure... Any ideas? Edit: My current setup is a Netgear ReadyNAS in (hardware) raid1. I'm hoping to replace this with a home theatre type PC…
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Yes and no.. If you use a hardware RAID, you can only use the drive in the same model (or chipset) RAID controller. If you use software RAID, then you can swap drives happily (but not, obviously, swap Windows to Linux software raid). As you have it …
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