Is it possible to connect 2 MacBook Pros to the same backup drive and still use Raid 0 or raid 1
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I suspect the answer is it depends on what you mean when you say "connect" - I have mine directly connected to a Mac Mini, however I also have it shared out on my home network so all of the clients on my network (to include non-MACs) are "connected" to my LaCie drive. Hope that helps.
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The two Thunderbolt connections are for daisy chaining with other Thunderbolt devices. You can share the drive on the network but you would not be able to connect two computers to this drive at the same time.
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That's the way it's designed to work. Otherwise, there's no point to having a RAID array and you might as well sync two hard drives. I own this enclosure and like it very much but I've not experienced a hard drive failure yet so I have no personal experience. Apparently, Mr. Morrissey does. I do not think the drives necessarily have to be identical, but the RAID array will end up being the size of the smaller hard drive.I would also note that the StarTech enclosure does not support RAID 5 (only 0 and 1) so Showman's RAID 5 could not have been in this StarTech enclosure.
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Short answer, No, due to port expansion eSATA. Longer answer, you wouldn't want to if you could, with double (or worse) data traveling on a single wire, performance would be poor, and it would burn up from constant multi-drive activity (which is the likely reason that the RAID version of this was discontinued)
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We use only one with our iMac to expand connectivity and it works great. What you want to do should work fine when you consider each port is completely cloned.
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If your MBP has thunderbolt ports, yes. I would run the 2big in its native RAID0 mode to get more speed out of it, and then use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone it out to a RAID1 unit or some other redundant backup plan.
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I wish I could say I knew but I don't. That might be a good question to ask the company directly... I leave the MacBook plugged in as the default and working as our backup drive so I leave both on to backup in the background. Sorry I can't help more than that.
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If you set up as a raid mirror you can hot swap the drives as long as one of the 2TB drives is working to copy your data from. Raid must be mirror not stripe.
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Mine came with 2 drives with RAID 1. Suggest you to review the spec at http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/4178-705315.pdf
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Yes you can. I am currently running RAID5 with 4 3TB WD Red hard drives, 1 bay is open.
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RAID 0,1 and SHR (Synology Hybrid Raid). With only 2 drives you can't get 5.
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Using 5 drives without redundancy is just asking for problems... I would venture to say that one of those drives is going to fail within a year. I have a 2x 2GB RAID1 system for the past 4 years, and had to re-sync them once. In the last 15 years I've had ~5 drives crash or get corrupted. Never again will I leave valuable data in only one drive.
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Not sure why you would want to do it that way. With mirrored drives you already have drive redundancy. If a drive goes bad, pull it out and put in the new drive. There are better ways to provide for offsite backup than to keep pulling a drive and having the raid rebuild itself.
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I do not have a MAC however on the PC and I believe it will apply to the MAC you can set up the array in various ways including 4 individual drives. I hope this helps. Ron
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Yes, you can create two distinct drives, each with different RAID settings.
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I believe once you change to flex-raid you can setup the drives however you would like. If you have 4 drives you can use raid 1 for two drive and leave the others drives as raid 0
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I'm using it as a mirrored array on a Linux box, but you should be able to configure it as JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks). If I remember correctly, it defaulted to JBOD when I first used it. According to the technical specs it's Mac OS X compatible. http://www.startech.com/HDD/Enclosures/Dual-Bay-SATA-External-Hard-Drive-Enclosure~SAT3520U3SR