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Originally Posted by HeartsOfFire
I too have a DS-323 with 2 1.5TB hard drives RAID 1'd. When it was mentioned about possible file system corruption though, I began rubbing my chin in thought.
I'm now considering buying a 3rd 1.5TB drive and cycling the drives in and out of the NAS every 6 months.
Thoughts?
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I don’t recommend it. Although pulling and storing half of a RAID-1 mirror set works, its not a best practise and is not how RAID was designed or intended to use.
I have seen some very unfortunate circumstances where people played with RAID sets like this, because in theory nothing bad ever happens, only to have the RAID controller decide to rebuild in the wrong direction, or they get the drives physically mixed up, etc.