Hi i'm buying this server but i need to know how many bays for 2.5 hard drives are included?
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The 3.5" bays can hold one 2.5" hard drive or SSD per tray without any adaptors.
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There is no drive included, but there is a bay that supports 2.5 inch drives. I currently use a 240gb mSATA for the OS and 1tb for misc files and media.
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I have 3 TB drives in a raid 5 configuration. No issues yet. We use it primarily for time machine backups.
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yup yup. I'm using it on a mac mini with four USB 3 ports and it's driving 4 sans digital enclosures with 5 HD bays each. Makes for a great raided server
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Hi, HDD is not included. It has 4 bays available for SATA ( SATA-300 ) - PCI Express 2.0 ( HP Dynamic Smart Array B120i ) Drives LFF.Installed RAM is 8GB but expandable to Maximum RAM of 32GB.Thanks, PCrush
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There won't be enough room for two 3.5" drives, but, if you buy a dual 2.5" drive to 3.5" bay adapter, you can mount two drives. You also can mount one 3.5" drive and tape up to two 2.5" solid-state drives near the front of the chassis (with no moving parts, they don't need to be secured as well), and there are plenty of SATA connectors onboard. Note that the only cooling fan is a very small one on the power supply unit, so I'd recommend going with solid-state drives anyway if heat concerns you. I'm very happy with this purchase, and I use no PCI card, just the onboard video, onboard network, onboard management interface, onboard SATA controller, and software RAID. There won't be enough room for two 3.5" drives, but, if you buy a dual 2.5" drive to 3.5" bay adapter, you can mount two drives. You also can mount one 3.5" drive and tape up to two 2.5" solid-state drives near the front of the chassis (with no moving parts, they don't need to be secured as well), and there are plenty of SATA connectors onboard. Note that the only cooling fan is a very small one on the power supply unit, so I'd recommend going with solid-state drives anyway if heat concerns you. I'm very happy with this purchase, and I use no PCI card, just the... » Read More There won't be enough room for two 3.5" drives, but, if you buy a dual 2.5" drive to 3.5" bay adapter, you can mount two drives. You also can mount one 3.5" drive and tape up to two 2.5" solid-state drives near the front of the chassis (with no moving parts, they don't need to be secured as well), and there are plenty of SATA connectors onboard. Note that the only cooling fan is a very small one on the power supply unit, so I'd recommend going with solid-state drives anyway if heat concerns you. I'm very happy with this purchase, and I use no PCI card, just the onboard video, onboard network, onboard management interface, onboard SATA controller, and software RAID. « Show Less
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It has 4 bays and can be purchased with up to 4 hard drives. Mine is equipped with one hard drive and one disc drive.
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It has four bays for hard drives. If it comes with two drives, and you want to have four in there, you will need to purchase two more. I bought mine with no drives but it came with all four bays. It was new when I bought it.
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I looked inside and there are two 5.25 bays, one of these is occupied with a DVD-r. The hard drive slots I'm not so sure of but it looks like 5 altogether including the one that is used for the drive that comes with the computer. If this isn't correct then there may be 3 altogether. Sorry that I can't be positive about this.There is no door access like the DVD-r drives on the front of the computer but there are bays inside for 3.5 hard drives to be mounted.
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Dear Customer this particular server have 4 X 1 TB Hard drives but you can fo on aur web side an built you own server Best RegardsAlex
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Thanks for your information. I did also find out that there's a sata port intended for an optical drive. If so, then I can mount the SSD in that bay and still have all 4 bays for data. Now - does anybody know if the BIOS can handle 3TB drives without repartitioning?
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From what I've read, make sure the firmware on the Drobo is up to date you should be fine with drives > 2TB.
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Currently I have 2 Sata and 1 SS drive in it, still room for more. One thing though pickup a few 90 deg connectors as the case doesn't close properly if you use the regular connections for your Sata drives.
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There are 4 drive bays. I haven't done so, but I understand you can rig the DVD slot for an additional drive. I have already added USB external without a problem. As far as the larger that 2TB drives - sorry, I haven't tried that. I'm running two small drives to handle the OS in a RAID configuration and 2-2TB drives in a RAID for everything else. Just haven't had a reason to upgrade beyond 2TB yet.
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I just wanted to add that RAID 1 means 2 3TB drives will show up as 3TB (not 6TB) as it is a "mirrored" solution (and what I would recommend). So the MAX capacity in that set up is 4TB.
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Physically Any 3.5" hdd should fit fine. As far as drive specifications, I have two bays in my server, 1 has a 1.5TB and the other has a 2TB drive. I can't test anything larger as my larger drives are SAS rather than Sata.
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It handles 2TB no issues and you can mount as 1 big drive. Suspect if you upgrade to whs2011 it can handle it. I have 2 whs and like them. Pimped them out with more ram and a faster CPU