For completeness I buy RAM, hard drive and PCI card, right? I can put dual disk RAID 1? I need to buy something else?
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Yes, the RAM is SO-DIMM 200 Pin (Laptop Ram). Not sure what you mean by PCI card, the system has everything you need without expansion. The internal SATA controller can be used for raid 1 but you may have to "modify" the case the fit the second drive.
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There won't be enough room for two 3.5" drives, but, if you buy a dual 2.5" drive to 3.5" bay adapter, you can mount two drives. You also can mount one 3.5" drive and tape up to two 2.5" solid-state drives near the front of the chassis (with no moving parts, they don't need to be secured as well), and there are plenty of SATA connectors onboard. Note that the only cooling fan is a very small one on the power supply unit, so I'd recommend going with solid-state drives anyway if heat concerns you. I'm very happy with this purchase, and I use no PCI card, just the onboard video, onboard network, onboard management interface, onboard SATA controller, and software RAID. There won't be enough room for two 3.5" drives, but, if you buy a dual 2.5" drive to 3.5" bay adapter, you can mount two drives. You also can mount one 3.5" drive and tape up to two 2.5" solid-state drives near the front of the chassis (with no moving parts, they don't need to be secured as well), and there are plenty of SATA connectors onboard. Note that the only cooling fan is a very small one on the power supply unit, so I'd recommend going with solid-state drives anyway if heat concerns you. I'm very happy with this purchase, and I use no PCI card, just the... » Read More There won't be enough room for two 3.5" drives, but, if you buy a dual 2.5" drive to 3.5" bay adapter, you can mount two drives. You also can mount one 3.5" drive and tape up to two 2.5" solid-state drives near the front of the chassis (with no moving parts, they don't need to be secured as well), and there are plenty of SATA connectors onboard. Note that the only cooling fan is a very small one on the power supply unit, so I'd recommend going with solid-state drives anyway if heat concerns you. I'm very happy with this purchase, and I use no PCI card, just the onboard video, onboard network, onboard management interface, onboard SATA controller, and software RAID. « Show Less
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Correct - RAM (laptop memory) and a hard drive (3.5"). No PCI card needed unless you have specific requirements. You can do a RAID 1 configuration, but only with 2x 2.5" drives and buying a special mounting bracket (MCP-220-00044-0N). Keep in mind you'll need to be able to install via the network or temporarily hook up an external DVD drive via USB or USB memory stick. Check this specs page for more info: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015A-EHF-D525.cfm?parts=SHOW
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Yes... but PCIe not PCI and likely raid depends on o/s drivers. We used software raid. You will have to add a bracket if you want to use 2 x 2.5" drive (s) and only a short PCIe card will fit.
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The one I bought has hardware raid. I have 4 * 1tb drives installed configured as RAID 5.
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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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No idea but Google around. I see lots of comments about SSD and RAID setups on the net. Good luck!
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Yes you can perform an online raid expansion. I'm sure you already know the standard warning but here goes anyway. Raid is not a backup. Always backup your data. Make sure your backed-up data is up to date before you perform the raid expansion!
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Yes, but you should probably buy a drive more compatible with your workstation, unless you have built a super-balls-out gaming system or media server.
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yes you can, and as you add it will expand the RAID. Check out the Thecus forum or tech support their is a lot of answers there.
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that depends on you mother board...raid x is raid x ....but sata3 is way faster then 1 or 2 ... then thers how meany drive you put in raid vs the max speed of you raid card what ever it is
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As far as I can tell they should be the same. PCIe bus or RAID configuration are probably the bigger factors (same). There maybe some difference in individual drives but probably not. The difference in price with capacity pretty much made the choice.
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Greetings, You will need to install system memory (DDR3 1333MHz+ SODIMM), an mSATA SSD and software in order to complete the unit. Best regards, MITXPC
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Ps- I went with this product before my knowledge of pcie drives. I would have chosen that over this product and an ssd. If you can afford it I think your performance will be way better.
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Hi, HDD is not included. It has 4 bays available for SATA ( SATA-300 ) - PCI Express 2.0 ( HP Dynamic Smart Array B120i ) Drives LFF.Installed RAM is 8GB but expandable to Maximum RAM of 32GB.Thanks, PCrush
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Use the Intel Raid Controller that is on your motherboard if you are going RAID 0, that's what I would do. I am using the card for an SSD which was perfect for my computer, big jump in performance. Not sure how it would work under RAID 0, seeing how I have never used it for that. Hope this helps.
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It supports RAID 0 with excellent performance. That is my current configuration. Note that there is no fault tolerance with RAID 0 so you need to regularly backup your data.
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The card itself has no RAID capabilities; the HDDs are reported to BIOS and OS as independent drives. That means you can only create software RAID arrays, via the OS.
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It's a single disk hard drive. You could format it to have two partitions, but that won't give you physical redundancy. If you need the redundancy of a raid system you're going to have to move up to one.
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Jim, this card supports raid 0 and 1 and JOB, but I will concede no raid 1, as I could never get it to work, so in the end you are right.