Am I missing something? Put 2 6tb drives in the enclosure. Powered on. Nothing Mounts and I don't see the drives in disk utility. What now?
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The unit might not be able to handle that capacity of a drive you might want to check the manual
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Dear Sir,This is Millie from ORICO.I am so sorry for the trouble that we had made.this enclosure support 6TB drive.Please contact ORICO Customer Care Center for Firmware update.Kind regards,Millie
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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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You have to format the drives. Search for disk partition in Windows, open it, then right-click and format the correct drives.
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It's been awhile since I put my together... I currently have one SSD as the OS Drive, one 3.5 data drive and if I remember correctly it's using up all the space on that mount. There is a 5.25 bay which I'm using for a Blu-Ray drive, but I'd imagine you could get something like a 3.5 to 5.25 adapter and get your 3rd drive in there that way. Page 3 in the manual (6 on the PDF) will give you a better idea of how the insides are laid out: http://www.silverstonetek.com.tw/downloads/Manual/case/Multi-GD05-Manual.pdf
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I put in my HDs so long ago, all three of them in three docks, I must have formatted in the docks since they never were in my PC. They are all NTFS now and they didn't come that way.
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It is sold as an enclosure for two drives, you need to add your own. I installed two WD 2 TB drives in mine which are mirrored (Raid 0).
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The Synology website says that 6TB drives are supported. Check the drive that you are planning on getting with their list to be sure.
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I have a Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 2 TB in this enclosure running on windows 7. It shows my drive is connected but I can't see in anywhere in My Computer. What the hell am I doing wrong? Does it support 2 TB? Any advice would be great. Thank you!
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I have a 4 TB drive in this enclosure (and 3 2TB's). You must format (partition) the drive correctly. Do not format it as a MBR partition. It will only recognize 2 TB if you do that. Partition as GPT.
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My guess is it is a two HDD system, correct? If that is the case it is most likely set up as a mirror, raid 0 I believe.hth,Don
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Practically you will need to put your drives into another DiskStation - I've done this and the data was migrated with no problems and no action needed from me. However, mind that you can't put 7 discs into a 4 bay box - but if you have only 4 drives in your 8-bay box, you can put them in a 4-bay box and they will show. They also must be put in the new box in the same order as they were in the old box.
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I just answered your question about the StarTech hard drive enclosure and then realized your question is about the enclosure. What kind of hard drive did you put in it?
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You have to open the back and look at how the first drive is mounted. Make sure there are connection wires available and connect it the same way the other one is set up. If you have any difficulty, check with Gateway or a Computer geek shop in your area. EC
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Have you formatted the drive already? If so, check the power/SATA cables or switch to another SATA port.
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Plug & play... A power/sata plug are built onto a small board. you plug it into the drive then slide them into the case add a usb, bam.... your done
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The hot swap functionality should be located in the raid controller not the drives, aside from possibilly energy feature on drive. I think you have drive optimized for network storage.
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I have installed a 3TB drive and it has been working without any issues. I believe that the drive size would be more of a function of the operating system and Device Monitor settings. If you have a drive I would try it but if you want to be safe, I would use a 3TB. This is a link to the Mediasonic product forum http://forum.mediasonic.ca/search.php?sid=1802efeb494c71a15013ae8c81a53b31 The product forum does talk about users installing 4TB drives in their 5 bay version of this enclosure.
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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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I just put a 3TB Seagate drive in one of these and it worked. One of my laptops had a weird issue, but other machines did not. TDMSERVICE.EXE consumed massive amounts of RAM (3+GB) a few times before it acted normal. A different laptop of the same make/model did not have the same problem. That first laptop has issues adding hardware anyways, so I don't think it's a combination of the enclosure and drive.