How many hard drives can you install on this one? I have a simular card by a different company which only allows 2 at a time.
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I believe only two at a time are supported, however I was not able to use this card. It comes with a Low Profile front but could not connect any cable to the sata port as it was to close to the case cover. (so not really low profile useable)
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2 SATA drives & 2 IDE using (primary & slave) cable into the IDE connector.
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I'm afraid so. One drive will work; I'm using two. Even for a "newbie" it's pretty easy to set up, and they're very good about answering questions.
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like everyone else said you will see 4 separate drives if you are looking to pool your drives though I would suggest StableBit DrivePool it isn't free but it works great and it is only $20
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I'm not sure either. I've only used mine for 1 drive. I doubt it would work for 2 at once. You would probably need 2 adapters and some software that could reconstruct the data, which is shared between the 2 raid 0 drives.
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It will do two 2-terabyte drives. Make sure you update to the latest drivers though or it won't.
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I'm not at the unit now (will look when I get home but I know I have 6 sata hard drives on and I had to use at least one, possibly 2 splitters so at most 5 possibly 4
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Your computer should be able to read more than one external drive at the time. Most likely, the issue seems to be a conflict of IDs assigned to each (ED) when we connect an (ED), then when we connect a 2nd (ED), then the 2nd (ED) is trying to use an ID that has already been assigned to the 1st (ED), therefore, the 2nd (ED) stays "offline" to avoid a conflict with the 1st (ED). The technical term is "The disk is offline because it has a signature collision with another disk that is online" To make the 2nd and 3rd, and 4th (ED) to be online, then you have to go to: - Computer Management - Disk Management - Scroll down so you can see your external drives - You will notice that the 1st (ED) is "Online" - You will notice that the other (EDs) are "Offline" - Right-Click on "Offline" and a shortcut menu will give the option to turn (ED) "Online" - Wait for a few seconds and now that (ED) will become available to be used. I hope these findings will help you guys minimize your frustrations as I had them before I found this solution
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did you try one drive at a time? I had the same problem with my drives because they had a signature collision. Had to manually change the signature of one of them. Also, the unit says it will handle 6TB. Not sure it that means 6TB total or will it recognize all 12TB for you.
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If you have them sure but, you need to also buy a caddy (bracket) as 2nd hard drive slot doesn't have one to hold hard drive in place. This machine run fast out of the box someone posted 2nd bay does work.
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None...you install the hard drives you want, If you go to their website you can find out a lot of answers. www.bufflaotech.com
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Hello Dany, I know you can make the same configuration that the MD389LL/A has with one hard drive and an internal SSD. I believe you can go with two hard disk, too. Your systen will perform best with an internal SSD and hard disk. You are welcome.
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Call them. Always have 2 backups! I lost a lot of data with that hard drive, mine failed after a short time
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Do a google search for that. I doubt you can mount a second hard drive in there, but I'm not sure.
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Honestly, I only have 2 2TB drives installed and never had any problems since I first bought it! I don't see why it should not support 2 6TB drives! Hope this helps!
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The manual doesn't say. I used a 1TB drive and it worked fine. You can add 2 external drives, but no mention of size limit there. You can map it as a network drive, so you can move content back and forth that way, but slower ofc.
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You should ALWAYS have redundancy, especially with these kinds of drives. Yeah, they are cheap, but your data isn't. Buy two and use one as a backup. I learned the hard way myself.
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I have eight 4TB drives, totaling to 32 TB's. Haven't tried 5TB drives.Do note that I'm no longer using the included RAID controller though, it had too many issues. I opted for the SANS DIGITAL HA-DAT-4ESPCIE PCI-Express x8 SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Controller Card on Newegg, had no issues with it since.I think the bus supports 64-bit address mapping, so the capacity limitation per drive is most likely a limitation of the controller and not the multiplier that's built into the SAN enclosure.