I can't find the 1TB Hard drive anywhere, Is it suppose to be hidden or does it has something to do with super raid 2? (Which I know little of.)
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Strange. When it came in, I found the drive as being alone and empty. I partitionned it in three separate parts for work purposes, but it's supposed to be here! You should contact MSI!
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Quick note. I bought one new from amazon and it did not come preconfigured RAID 5. I had to select it from the interface. I'm glad I checked before migrating my files to the drive. Other than that, it's been great.
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I agree with David, you can set it to Raid 0 for full storage space use. I prefer using Raid 1 for protection even though you drop the usable space in half. I like having my data replicated in case of failure.
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The one I ordered and received for my PS4 is 1TB, just make sure you have the 1TB one checked and not the 500GB. Right now the 1TB is actually about $15 cheaper than the 500GB. Hope this helps.
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I have an iMac 24 (2008) and iMac27 (2011) ... and am trying to initialize this drive on either, and the systems only seem to see 1.8TB - not 4TB. The website that they direct you to is very cagey on this - the drives say there is not problem, but there is an asterisk that says you may only be able to access 2tb of the drive. I'm wondering if you ever got this working. I am trying to install the drive in a box on the Firewire 400 and 800 channels though ... not sure if the SATA interface would be any better. This is kind of nonsense ... one would think they not want to sell these drives to people who cannot use them and have to return them for a refund ... but? Did you get your drive installed? By the way I just wonder what the people who respond to this that have no idea are trying to accomplish by that? Kind of silly wasting everyone's and their own time?
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yes, I have two of these boxes, & I set them to either raid 0 or leave it at the default which is JBOD. Currently, I buy a lot of Seagate Barracuda 4 terabyte drives, and swap them in and out of these boxes per my various jobs. I work off of the one box that I have at 16 terabytes raid 0, & I back up to the JBOD single drives. it all works fine, & I configure everything using Disk Utility.
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Hey best option go to google and type (what hard drive should i use with ps4) once there links 1, 2 and 4 are the best instructions so far... Good luck!
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It is RAID 0 which is what MSI calls "Super RAID 2" when they are using 3 SSD's in RAID 0. There is really no such thing as "RAID 2"
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Many wish we knew; it's more than likely the rumored 1tb expander that "will" be "blessed" by Tivo but who knows when? It's supposed to have a Tivo logo on the box so I'm guessing this will be the one. I've got it in my wish list for the second it's announced.
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I received a 2TB Hitachi on June 29th, 2010, and it was RETAIL packaging. I ordered direct from Amazon, not a reseller. I had no issues with the drive, and it is still running strong. It seems that some of the 1 star reviewers later in July got non-Retail boxes. I bought mine when Hitachi was offering a rebate, so I bet Amazon sold out of Retail packaged units by the time July rolled around. Looks like they have the item under investigation now...probably for the packaging.
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That is the theory of a RAID 5. I had a 4TB drive fail after a month on duty. Western Digital immediately sent me a new one, I plugged it in and it took about four days to re-establish the full RAID. My 16TB with 12 TB usable space on RAID 5 was loaded with 4TB of records. So, if you want to upgrade your system one drive at a time, better be patient.
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I was trying to remember as I recall I do believe it was the retail version - but not 100% sure. It has been in my raid and I haven't experienced any problems with it.
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There is not any disk exposed. It's a regular SATA hard drive, which I am using right now. Probably you are having an optical illusion :)
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I ordered the 2TB model, and it came without a drive. I imagine that there is something incorrectly listed in the 2TB model listing.
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I believe by default they come in a RAID 1, which would give you 2TB of total storage. If you set it to RAID0, you'll get use of all 4TB (probably 3.6 or so useable) but you will not have redundancy.
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That's exactly what I'm doing and why I bought this; however I am certainly no hardware guru. It takes a while for it to show upon explorer (4-5 secs), windows needs to read it, etc. I would go to the internet and find a forum that has a topic for hardware, giving them the model, intent, etc. Let me know what you find out. I am interested. My final goal it to set up a RAID, still need one more hard drive.
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I was wondering the same thing. So basically, it's impossible to purchase a 3TB drive that does not come with a plug? Unfortunate. :/