Can I divide it in two sets, each one with 4 HDs, and then to RAID internal? Like: 4 hds are may main storage, and then the next 4 would be my backup?
1011697
My understanding is as follows. Any and all drives you install internally are used together to form the RAID configuration. So while you could configure the system to have two volumes and split the space between the two volumes, you cannot install two separate RAID instances in one NAS. I think what you are suggesting is an interesting idea. To achieve you goal you would really want to buy two NAS systems, say each with a 4HD capacity and you can configure it to automatically backup from one NAS to the second NAS.
1011698
a Raid 5 will accomplish the same thing, while not requiring as many drives. The drives work together to increase speed, while they're also fault tolerent so 1 drive can crash without loss of information. If that's suitable, that would be the best option. You need at least 3 drives and the space will be 2/3 of the total capacity.
1011699
If you are asking if you can set up two independent 4 drive Raid arrays the answer is yes. Whether or not the single Raid array can serve as a "hot" standby for the other I don't know but I would doubt it.
1011700
Yes. The system is very flexible in how you can setup storage. For more information you can download the user manual from their website for free. This system has a lot of bells and whistles worth looking into.
1897261
I think you want a RAID array, that is a number of hard disks linked together with a total capacity approximately equal to all the drives summed up (depending on RAID type in use). The latter is not a recommended RAID configuration (if one drive fails, whole thing goes down) and can be complex to set up. Short answer: Maybe, but better not, just get a newer higher capacity hard drive for the same price or lower later on down the line :)
91777
You can configure the drive however you like (raid 1 or 0) and it works stand-alone or daisy chained. It's a very flexible and reliable drive.
1905073
You can fill as few as 2 slots (using one drive as a redundant drive) and leave the rest open for later use. I initially loaded 6 slots with drives and allowed the NAS to test all 6 drives. I them removed 2 drives and keep them as backups. I now have 4 3TB drives installed and running just fine configured as one volume.
1303012
If the 2 drives are individual and not set up in a raid, they will be read by this enclosure. Personally I have discontinued external enclosures and gone to bare drives with 2 of the dual docks. Cheaper and much easier stacking bare drives than a bunch of external enclosures cabled up. You can get plastic enclosures to store the hard drives.
477120
That will depend on your OS and drive manufacturer. I'm using Win 7 and a Seagate drive so I had to partition my 3TB into 2 logical drives. Don't quite understand why but that's what Seagate said I had to do.
1235416
I put 5 each 3tb WD Red drives in my Thecus and set up a RAID 6. I think you can use any number of drives of any size. Just keep in mind that if you use RAID it will only be a percentage of the smallest drive in the array.
663103
No. Just add the disks one at a time, letting the system reconfigure itself after each disk is added (may take a day or so, but you can use it while it is reconfiguring). The data will be spread over all the disks reduntantly.
1905077
You can add drives as you need them. The drives can be of mixed sizes too for the hybrid raid configuation; however, I recommend you try to keep to one drive size so select your initial drives with the thought of expanding later.
1731447
Yes, you can use with a single drive or multiple drives. They do not have to be in a RAID configuration. That is optional.
1374986
You can program the unit with the supplied software or through the Gui via web browser.. I currently have 2 servers backing up to this unit. You can have it setup to backup 2 computers on there own hard drive. Or do what I did and let them backup on the same hard drive but using there own folders. then you can create a internal backup to the unit where it will archive all backups onto the other hard drive. Otherwise setup the raid in the Gui and the hard drives will always back each other up. there's so many different options you can do with this unit. Its well worth it.
2099976
I'm not sure either. I've only used mine for 1 drive. I doubt it would work for 2 at once. You would probably need 2 adapters and some software that could reconstruct the data, which is shared between the 2 raid 0 drives.
91781
Either is possible, it has two drives in it and can be used as Raid 1 or you can use them as Raid 0. From recollection it comes preconfigured to be used as Raid 0 - taking more advantage of the the thunderbolt interface.
1231463
Comes with 2x2 TB drives. So, default RAID 1 would give you approximately 2 TB of usable space. This allows for one of the drives to fully fail and you lose nothing. Just have to replace the bad drive to retain redundancy.
1051019
Yeah, this is a low cost solution. Those Pegasus RAIDs from Promise have the more serious enterprise architecture. This is a basically a box that allows you to have four individual drives hooked up to a SATA controller, and linked to a Thunderbolt port. The default setting is as individual drives, and then you can impose a software RAID on that. I use RAID 0, and I back-up on other drives.
1476793
depend on yore RAID, can be done using JBOD if you use RAID0 to RAID5 every drive/s you add will have to be its own RAID
399562
Yes you can. I am currently running RAID5 with 4 3TB WD Red hard drives, 1 bay is open.