Can I use my old regular 250GB SATA III 2.5'' Laptop Hard Disks in to it? or do i have to buy nas or raid?
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No, you can not. The device takes 3.5 inch drives and can not use 2.5 inch drives.
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I would not recommend doing that. Having owned two of these I can say that these "wanky" units do not respond well to any modifications. All the software is embedded in the unit/on a chip. Stick with Lenovo/Iomega's specs for the hard drives with regards to disk size and rpm. That is what I would do based on my experience.
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You can start with one drive and add drives as needed. Of course if you don't use at least 2 drives you can't RAID them. The NAS will pick an appropriate RAID configuration automatically, but you can override it if you like. You can even mix disk sizes but that is not the best solution. You should use SATA 6 drives. As you add new drives the system recognizes them and reconfigures your system.
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Yes, this is only the case, you will have to buy the sata disk (HDD of SDD). Remember to get the correct height for it, if not do what I did, I just had a 1TB drive, install it and put tape around it to keep it secure until I get a new drive with the correct height.//
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An internal SATA 3.5" or 2.5" (2.5" needs a bracket to hold the HDD) would be compatible with this system, Western Digital and Seagate are both ok with this system, thank you.
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Hello, this is a standard 320gb sata hard drive for laptop. As long as your computer supports SATA this should not be an issue. You may want to do more research on your laptop being compatible with sata drives.
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All SATA is backward compatible AFAIK. I think that's why Seagate doesn't mention it in their specs. I've never had a problem -- I'm using two of these (3GB each) in a NAS that only supports 3gbs.
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Yes, you can put up to 3 units of WD Red 3TB NAS Hard Drives in the Lenovo ThinkServer TS140, in a RAID configuration.
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The answer may depend on what Operating System (OS) you are running and if you have the existing drives in a RAID array. If you have the existing drives installed as Just a Bunch Of Disks (JBOD) with individual drive letters assigned to them, then I would definitely buy a NAS specific drive (ST4000VN000) since it is physically a MUCH better drive and specifically designed as a 24/7 drive (the ST3000DM001 is NOT designed for the rigors of a RAID environment nor does it have time-limited "drop-out" features which is necessary for RAID usage). I personally have many of the older ST3000DM001 drives in use (I bought them before the NAS drives became available), and while they are OK, they tend to run at least 10 degrees hotter and have failed on a number of occasions. I use StableBit DrivePool software to create a redundant drive array similar to a RAID 1 array, but the time-limited drop-out feature is not necessary for that software to work properly. However, when I've had to replace a failed older ST3000DM001 drive, I have always bought a Seagate NAS ST4000VN000 as the replacement. IMHO, the Seagate ST4000VN000 is an excellent drive, now selling at a reasonable price, and has very good performance features. Hope that helps. The Beagle
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Physically you will need a 2.5 to 3.5 mounting adapter and a SATA connection. I personally recommend installing the OS from scratch and then copying the data over from the old drive. If that is not practical then use Ghost, Acrounis or other imaging software. If you do image then there are a number of important setting adjustments that need to be made that are beyond the scope of this reply that can be found at http://thessdreview.com/ under Guides.
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I personally have a 2TB installed, so i cannot speak for that. But i don't think it's an issue, since it's just a normal SATA to USB adapter, i don't think that there's going to be an issue with using a 3TB Drive or larger.
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your best bet is to use a solid state drive it will be a lot faster than a 10K hard drive & has no moving parts. It will only take a SATA II.
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You can install data drives, 3.5" models. All must be the same mfg, model and size. IBM does recommend certain drives and you can find them at their website for the device.
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I know this is an old question, but if it helps in the future for someone else it's worth answering. Some laptops will only accept a 9mm thick drive. Some will take 11mm or more. That's the only question to keep in mind with almost any laptop or mini desktop. It's also valid for any SATA drive. You can google your models tech specs or speak with a technician.
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As long as that laptop model takes SATA hard drives - just look up the above laptop model specs
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Not sure if they use the 3.5 or2.5 laptop drives. Try the SSD tho. They work great..
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Can you run RAID that way? Id like to install 2 2TB drives, for large capacity RAID.
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It requests a wd red nas drive if the hard drives you have are nas drives I dont see why they wouldn't work the two disks do not need to match in size