Has anyone tried a striped array between drives?
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From the product description on the product page: "Combining a new matching drive with existing internal for high-performance RAID-0 Stripe volume."
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Yes. The redundancy level will vary by the number of drives but you can certainly start with 3 and add more later on.
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You can mix SAS and SATA drives in the same controller but not in the same an array. If you already have SAS drives, you can use these but must create a new array for them.
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Each drive will always be a bit different, as no two drives will have the exactly the same free space. Mine is 931GB
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I have not had any issues with doing this. The system sees the drive the same as if it was not in a bay.
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I've never tried that but there is only a slot each for a 3.5" IDE, a 2.5"IDE or a SATA drive. The two IDE positions are on opposite sides of the device but share a power interface so only one IDE drive at a time would even have power. With the position of the SATA interface I'm sure it would even physically be possible to have two drives connected. Hope this helps!
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I am running 4 X 2tb hard drives in a "mirror" config. That only gives me 4tb of actual storage space but the hot swap feature was what I wanted.
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Don't have exactly such an experience, but this is one among not many (if not the only!) capable to connect multi-drive bays with spawned (e)SATA. Have connected self-made 5 drives bay, worked fine.However, i would advice you to ask Drobo's tech support regarding tech specs requirement and if their boxes either provide multi-drive (spawned SATA), or single logical RAID-drive on eSATA port.
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Yes. I have two drives plugged in and Windows 7 shows them as D: and E:. They both show up at the same time and can be read/written to concurrently.
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Greetings,Great question!Yes, absolutely. The two drive types can be installed and utilized in conjunction with one another.Best regards,MITXPC
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No it does not. It has a feature called "folder duplication" which makes sure folders you identify are copied across multiple drives. Sure, it doesn't offer real-time redundancy, but it is far more simple than RAID and is easier to manage.
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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.
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yeah works fine if you format it right. Fat32 works good unless files are over 4gigs in size. also ntsf with macfuze installed is a good bet too..
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It does work with only one drive. I have not add the second drive after using it over a year.
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Theoretically, you can since the dock mode presents the two HDDs in JBOD layout from my understanding but I've only used it to clone HDDs. Please confirm with StarTech instead, I'm just one of the many customers.
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Their is no problem with mixing various size drives. I did that until I eventually updated to all 4th drives.
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It requests a wd red nas drive if the hard drives you have are nas drives I dont see why they wouldn't work the two disks do not need to match in size