Is the drive ok to be on 24 x 7 ?
1963599
No reason it can't be on 24x7, but I put mine into deep sleep when I am doing the same to save a few cents of electricity.
1963600
I leave mine on 24/7 for the purpose of being able to access my media while I am traveling. It will sleep after a period of inactivity and you can set it up to go into deep sleep on a schedule.
1963601
i don't know that specific answer, mine its always on..... you dont have an easy option to power it off, it does have a button on the back that you need to press around 5 seconds to turn it off, but its not that accessible, also through the admin webpage you have options to turn the hard disk off while idle for more than X minutes... like sleep mode, but you never turn it off... hope that helps
1963602
Sorry for the late response. Yes it is fine to leave on 24 x 7. No problems.
1157320
I have been using this disk drive for one year in my network attached storage array for the past year going 24x7 without a problem. I got a second disk drive last month to do RAID 1 mirroring.
2045903
you most certainly can. I have this in my regular desktop , the only limitation would be if you are using an old system that does not support large drives.(over 2TB) but anything built or bought in the last 5 years should be just fine.
1106873
I have run this drive SATA 2 & SATA 3 units under Window XP 3 and Window Ultimate 7 without incident.
506086
Every time in the past when new HDD sizes come out there was a firmware update to allow them to work. So of course there is no guarantee but it "should" be fine.
1123021
I currently have a 3TB drive in it and it's working fine. I cannot comment on 4TB.
178451
Absolutely. there are always SOME weird motherboards and some NAS's that don't like certain HDD's, so it isn't guaranteed, but it's a real nice, solid, good working drive. Read some reviews on it. In RAID 0, by the way, you can make up for the 5400 RPM and make these things scream and still have the low heat, low power consumption.
924553
No. New drives have to be equal to or larger than the largest installed drive.
1404587
Yes, no problem. I personally use a standard SATA drive through, I need the capacity. Works like a charm...
1679977
well if you are running the drive 24/7 as a backup or other reason, those drives do get hot. The life of the drive could be shortened by overheating.
2089342
I don't have any experience with either of these programs, but being that it is solid state and 1Tb you should not have any storage problems. Sorry I could not be of more help.
754909
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.
1808480
yes, but you will be using that as the cache drive. you may not store files on to the 24 gb.
782508
You can use any SATA drive, I think. I would recommend a drive intended for continuous use, such as a NAS drive. I picked a WD Red, 4TB,
1242322
Absolutely. I installed a 2TB drive in mine 6 months ago. Works like a charm.
1506888
My drives stay circa 20-25F above ambient. The description notes 3 X 3.5 inch drives.
1648338
I personally have a 2TB installed, so i cannot speak for that. But i don't think it's an issue, since it's just a normal SATA to USB adapter, i don't think that there's going to be an issue with using a 3TB Drive or larger.