Does this dock see 1 big drive with 2 hard drives plugged in or is it two separate drives?
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The system will see both drives individually, but if you are using esata, you need an esata interface that has the capability of splitting the port.
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it will show both drives love mine have used it for years they are a good product.
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With the USB connection it will see both drives. If you use eSATA, you can see only one.
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Bill what i think i would do is name one backup 1 and 2 and that would be more coast Efficient than going to Raid . Just a Taught. RC
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I maybe wrong but it looks like 2 USB2 in front and on the back. Never used USB3 before, so not exactly sure.So far, seems to work good
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No. They don't see each other's drives. what you can do is to create an array on each of them and then in the OS use them as a single drive.
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There is only one hard drive bay which is already occupied. If you do not use the optical drive you and remove it and get a hard drive caddy and put one in there.
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What i first got for the docking station was a Western Digital Green 2TB 3.5" HD & partitioned it in half - one side to use as a backup for my MacBook Pro & the other side as storage for music, movies & the like...works fine. Seagate also makes good HD's... you'll just have to shop around to find something suitable...1TB drives can be found 2nd hand for a very good price - just need to check it out first... got my 2TB for $50 from someone that moved up to a 4TB drive & just didn't need the other any more. Had brought the dock w/ me to check it out. May you find what you need... Raimon What i first got for the docking station was a Western Digital Green 2TB 3.5" HD & partitioned it in half - one side to use as a backup for my MacBook Pro & the other side as storage for music, movies & the like...works fine. Seagate also makes good HD's... you'll just have to shop around to find something suitable...1TB drives can be found 2nd hand for a very good price - just need to check it out first... got my 2TB for $50 from someone that moved up to a 4TB drive & just didn't need the other any more. Had brought the dock w/ me to check it out. May you find what you... » Read More What i first got for the docking station was a Western Digital Green 2TB 3.5" HD & partitioned it in half - one side to use as a backup for my MacBook Pro & the other side as storage for music, movies & the like...works fine. Seagate also makes good HD's... you'll just have to shop around to find something suitable...1TB drives can be found 2nd hand for a very good price - just need to check it out first... got my 2TB for $50 from someone that moved up to a 4TB drive & just didn't need the other any more. Had brought the dock w/ me to check it out. May you find what you need... Raimon « Show Less
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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 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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Just the USB 2.0 cable and power cable, but I don't recommend this dock, because can't mount 3tb hard drives and more, better buy the sabrent dual dock
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I'm not sure because after purchasing the dock I sent it to our IT specialist and he told me that the drive itself was damaged and the new dock wouldn't have worked anyway. Thanks, and good luck - Gary D.
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It has three USB 3.0 ports. I like Western Digital hard drives. Haven't had one fail yet!
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MANUFACTURER ANSWER: Thanks for asking! You can connect two self powered external hard drives to this hub. This hub will not be able to power two host powered external hard drives. USB 2.0 has limited performance overall, however, you should not see any noticeable drop when comparing this hub to using several USB 2.0 ports directly on your computer.
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Basic rule of thumb is that this will take up 2 slots. Exactly two. If you only have one Drive slot available, then no.
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not sure what you mean by docking station, if you are just looking for additional storage look at Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Home 3 TB External Hard Drive STAM3000100, Black or (Old Model) Seagate Backup Plus 1TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (Black)(STBU1000100)A
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Yes. The unit consists of two 1tb hard drives and a case they are mounted in.
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Mine has one open drive bay. There are indeed 3, one for the system drive, one for the optical drive and one is open.
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Yes one is for power the other power/data. I am running the drive on the data cable only. It did not run from the HUB without both plugged in, so I plugged the data cable direct to my laptop and it works just fine without the power cable.
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Yes, it has 2 of them on the left side. It has 2 USB2 ports on the right side.