how many hdds can this take? I want to use it to build a small business NAS and run FreeNAS
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the case only has room for two 3.5 drives and has one 5.25 drive way normally for a optical drive. i wouldn't use this to create a NAS device i think it's overpriced and limited to the number of disks you can have. if your in this price range why not get a qnapp turbonas ? there atom powered have decent amount of memory and you can still run basic daemons since it has a linux kernel like bitorrents etc.
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Price?? This is cheap compared to my Synology NAS that I use for shared storage. This particular device is great for network storage or as a backup device for a 1:many scenario. It is not difficult to setup, just read the documentation. I have had mine running now for 2 years without a hiccup. If you have problems call tech support up. The tricky part is understand one has to claim a volume before one can use it.
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yes it is. We use six of these units in a enterprise NAS and they seem to work well - no problems...so far :)
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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.
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I didn't do 12 drives, but I did install nine 6tb WD drives and the NAS works great.
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Yes, you can put up to 3 units of WD Red 3TB NAS Hard Drives in the Lenovo ThinkServer TS140, in a RAID configuration.
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I have a 1TB drive in it currently hosting my VMware ESXi Server. And it has I believe 3 or 4 sata ports on the mother board if I remember correctly. Because I have an sata dvd drive and two hdds in it currently with one other sata port available if I remember correctly.
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You can start with one drive and add drives as needed. Of course if you don't use at least 2 drives you can't RAID them. The NAS will pick an appropriate RAID configuration automatically, but you can override it if you like. You can even mix disk sizes but that is not the best solution. You should use SATA 6 drives. As you add new drives the system recognizes them and reconfigures your system.
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I just have a 2 TB drive in it at the moment. If it says that 4 TB is the limit, you probably should respect that. I have found that docking bases tend to top out at 4 TB as well, so maybe that's the current limit.
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The Power rails on mine can't support more than one drive at a time (thing broke within two weeks or so). I wouldn't rely on it for heavy server storage loads.
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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.
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Yes, yes it does. I am using 3 of these bad boys in my nas4free server right now. All 12 drives show up perfectly and i get decent speeds with samba2. Drivers are included in freenas and nas4free latest builds. I truly recommend this card, and it is an excellent way to add 4 simple sata ports to your system.
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With the Synology RAID option you can start with the 3TB drives and add larger ones later. You just can't anything of smaller size than the drives used to create the array.
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Running freenas (freeBSD) on it without problems. Don't see why Linux would be any problem.
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The older Thecus N5200 series is limited to 2TB drives, but I am aware of no such limitation for the N5550 NAS. Load it up!
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You don't "get the fact that its diskless". This simply means that the NAS is not shipped with hard disks. They must be purchased separately. I would suggest the WD NAS rated drives. Make sure to get 2 of them. Same size.
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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.