RAID capability: Does anyone know if this machine has RAID capability?
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What you want to do is not supported, but there might be a solution out there if you understand how the drive extender technology works. There is a technical paper about the data structure on the Microsoft website. http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/f/c/2fc09c20-587f-4f16-aa33-c6c4c75fb3dd/Windows_Home_Server_Drive_Extender.pdf "Windows Home Server Drive Extender does nothing unique to the secondary data partitions or the files on them, which makes enables you to recover most of the lost data-even in worst-case scenarios. If the home server fails completely, all the surviving drives can be attached to a computer that is not even running Windows Home Server Drive Extender, and you can copy the files from the drives to that computer. Because the files retain their original names and paths (under the \DE directory), the files can be used with no specific recovery steps. Important Although this works as a disaster recovery method, moving a secondary hard drive between computers is not a recommended or supported use of Windows Home Server Drive Extender." Also, I found this on one of the webcasts: Q:If you are using "Folder Copy" and a drive fails - can you remove the working drive and plug it into a normal computer and read the files without any special software? A:The data from the File Shares is recorded onto the hard drives in standard formats, so you can pull data off the drives. That said, you really don't know which data is on which hard drive if you have more than one working drive. Q:i have about 500GB - 1TB of data that i will want to archive each year. i.e remove hard drives. But data will not be stored on any one drive. How would i achieve that? Manually copy files to externals? A:there is an add-in created that allows for a USB HDD to be added and accessed without adding it to the storage volume. That way you can easily move the data to that external USB HDD
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It depends how you want to use it. In Raid 0 it will work, but in Raid 1 it will not work.
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I had not attempted raid yet, it does however afford me a score of 7.9 on win 7 x64 with a sata III SSD though....
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Yes. That's exactly what I bought it for - extra ports. There is a message that pops up on booting about RAID but extra ports work as intended.
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Yeah, this is a low cost solution. Those Pegasus RAIDs from Promise have the more serious enterprise architecture. This is a basically a box that allows you to have four individual drives hooked up to a SATA controller, and linked to a Thunderbolt port. The default setting is as individual drives, and then you can impose a software RAID on that. I use RAID 0, and I back-up on other drives.
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Since it only has one unicorn disc, you can't configure it to RAID. You would need another separate, physical disc to have a "RAID" setup.
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It does allow JBOD but I wouldn't recommend it. You should really use RAID 5 to take advantage of this unit.
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yes. You would use disk utility in Mac OS. Thats how set mine up. Using RAID 0 and RAID 1.
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No. This card has no RAID functionality. You need to find a card that offers RAID 1, which is drive mirroring, to do what you're looking to do.
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I use it in RAID mode but I did the RAID using MAC OS X not the software they deliver. I didn't try that software.
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Hello fellow Transcend card user: First of all, I am not using my card in a RAID configuration. However, I do believe your assumption is correct. I have an ASUS MoBo and to access the installed RAID functionality of the MoBo, I have to attach the hard drives directly to a specific set of SATA III I/O ports. You may want to check your MoBo manual for such requirements. You may also want to pose this question to your Mobo manufacturer. Further, you may want to consider running your RAID configuration from a USB-3 and/or e-SATA external RAID enclosure. Hope this information can be of some help - Good luck.
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I am not using it in a raid setup but The card is raid compatible. Check the specs. I haven't had any problems.
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I setup with RAID 1, according to instruction, it also support Raid 0, 5...
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It should work as RAID set, if you do not need to see multiple drives, but if you want USB3.0 adapter support port multiplier protocol, look for "U3eSATA" in AMAZON
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Hi, yes indeed, as well as being a raid 0, 1, 5 unit this product is also a very competent JBOD (just a bunch of discs) that interfaces with your via a decent USB 3.0 port. It very (too) easily switches between those storage configurations; just don't make the mistake of switching before you've backed up your data!!
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Unfortunately no. It only has e-Sata connections on the back. So you have to run it through the raid controller card.
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This card supports RAID-0 and RAID-1 only setup. It does not support RAID-5