Once one external hard drive is full does it automatically switch over to the 2nd drive. Also is there a limit to the drives storage size?
836173
I only used one external drive so I don't know if it would switch over. What I have found is that the D-Link setup will fill up a 1T bit external drive quickly if you don't delete anything. I don't know if it can use a bigger external drive.
836174
Can take up to 2 hard drives, 4 Tb each. When drive 1 is full it will start recording on drive 2. When drive 2 is full it will go back to drive 1 and start overwriting it.
328969
Only 1 drive can be recognized at a time. You can fill one then remove it and attach another. I use a USB switch which only powers one port at a time. This allows me to plug in multiple external disc at a time and switch back and forth as needed.
420317
I have an earlier generation version of this and it works with 500 and 750gb drives but not a 2TB drive, so there do seem to be potential capacity issues. The seller should address this in the product specs - it's a glaring omission.
441600
Yes. I switch between a 320gb WD passport and a 1tb Seagate GoFlex without any issue.
1842684
The configuration software asks you to define the capacity assigned to the Mac and PC part of the disk. It works as if you had 2 disks.
1996153
i dont' think you can fit 2 drives. anyway i use one external drive (usb 3.0) so that works well. but i i do recommend getting one sad
1182535
Yes I'm running two hard drives. If you want more it would have to be an external.
457430
The drive is very quite for a large storage device. I have 2 hooked up and it's still quite. They only spin up when you need them.
843170
You can start with two drives and expand it as you get more drives. Furthermore if all bays are full then you can replace older smaller drives with bigger newer drives without losing any data.
172339
the drive limit is 2TB per drive. which considering theyre still making this item you would think they would put out a firmware update if nothing else. im hoping that if they make a new generation f this product that they not only put all the usb ports on one side, but also make them... oh gee i dunno.... a usb port speed that was invented in the current decade, and support for drives larger than 2TB would be a nice addition as well.their support team told me to get my 4 3TB drives to work on it that i shoudl format them and make just a 2TB partition and just ignore the rest of my space, oh, and of course ignore the fact that i just deleted 12TB of data the drive limit is 2TB per drive. which considering theyre still making this item you would think they would put out a firmware update if nothing else. im hoping that if they make a new generation f this product that they not only put all the usb ports on one side, but also make them... oh gee i dunno.... a usb port speed that was invented in the current decade, and support for drives larger than 2TB would be a nice addition as well.their support team told me to get my 4 3TB drives to work on it that i shoudl format them and make just a 2TB partition and just ignore the rest of... » Read More the drive limit is 2TB per drive. which considering theyre still making this item you would think they would put out a firmware update if nothing else. im hoping that if they make a new generation f this product that they not only put all the usb ports on one side, but also make them... oh gee i dunno.... a usb port speed that was invented in the current decade, and support for drives larger than 2TB would be a nice addition as well.their support team told me to get my 4 3TB drives to work on it that i shoudl format them and make just a 2TB partition and just ignore the rest of my space, oh, and of course ignore the fact that i just deleted 12TB of data « Show Less
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You sure can. I have mine working with one WD red 3tb hard drive. Will upgrade to another one same capacity once I get this one full.
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sure hope you have not used more on the drive the terrabyte drive that is usuallly its customarry to replace with same size drive or larger for that very reason but load in the4 new drive and and the old make secondary you can send all to the new drive or drag and drop in new drive
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There is space for only 2 HDD's in this unit. If both slots are used, then you would need to add larger drives. If you have (2) 1TB drives mirrored and needed more space, you could remove one 1TB drive, add a 4TB drive, rebuild the mirror, then removed the second 1TB drive and add a second 4TB drive then rebuild. This would keep the data online while you upgrade. After the HDD swapping and rebuilding, the new 6TB of space (3TB from each disk) could be made into another volume (mirrored or striped). Adding drive by the USB port is good for backing up your data to an external device, but I haven't tried to use a USB attached device to share data as it it's part of the NAS unit.
1106847
I've moved on to 4TB drives. There is no switch - I eject the drive from the desktop and then unplug power in the back of the drive. I only use it as an external drive for backups.
1510554
Yeah, I fell for it, too. I thought I was getting 2x 4TB drives -- and it is TB, btw...not gb (which is 1000x less). I found it's only 2x 2TB drives. I believe you can change the Raid to 0, though...which will stripe data across both of them and you'll get nearly 4TB of storage. The only downside to this is if one fails, you lose the data on both. Make it more fun then...and add a 2nd one to the network and have them back each other up =)
558908
I know you can switch to use an external hard drive but the box only recognizes one hard drive at a time. Meaning if you use an external drive, it won't let you access the internal hard drive until the external is unplugged.
1532758
No it won't, my system is configure to overwrite when hard drive it full but it is just stop record, I reboot couple time and it just stop record when hard drive is full