Does anyone know if I can install this to run a raid storage array while still booting from a separate drive?
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Yes, that is typically how a RAID controller like this is used. You shouldn't have a problem.
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Right now I have a mirrored array on this PCI RAID SATA card with two 2 TB SATA hard drives. I am booting my Windows 7 Pro machine on a separate SATA controller on my motherboard from an SSD drive.
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With the Synology RAID option you can start with the 3TB drives and add larger ones later. You just can't anything of smaller size than the drives used to create the array.
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I sincerely sorry to tell you this item could not support RAID.Also it could support USB 3.0 Host and can be used for your main storage.
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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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yes you can. I am currently running two of the 4 TB NAS drives from Seagate and I left the others empty. The device is scalable in that way however you will need to backup data on your current drive if you later want the added performance or redundancy of adding it to a RAID array.
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You'd need to have a cable that has SAS at both ends as well as a split. The one that I used was SAS on the card end and SATA (x 4 connectors) on the hard drive end. There are only two SAS ports on the RAID card, so you would need to ensure that the cable could handle the split.
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Yes... Since its not a RAID enclosure, you can copy from one drive to the other from within. You get normal SATA 3G speeds when doing this.
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Yes, you can just use it as a regular SATA controller, you don't have to set up RAID if you don't want to. That's how I use it.
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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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This is not a good choice for non-RAID. The Red drives are designed to stop re-trying bad sectors sooner than (for example) a comparable Green drive. This is great if you want the drive to continue operating while your RAID recovers the missing piece. If you don't have data redundancy, then you're more likely to lose data with a "NAS" drive.
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i have run dual raid 0 i have raid 10 and raid 1 i have not tryed dual raid 1 but it shold work fine
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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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I'm not sure know the answer (or fully understand what you're trying to accomplish) but I can't see why not. If the controller card is recognized in the BIOS, and the drives attached to the controller are recognized by the controller, then using the controller BIOS you can configure the drive array (RAID, JBOD, etc) and then set the boot order. Of course, using a controller card you will need to hit F6 to install the controller card drivers in order to load windows onto it.
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Hi, that depends on the configuration of your drives, if it raid 0,1 or 5, then it should see as a single drive, else, it wont be possible to see all the drives
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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 purchased the 2-drive version, but if the same thing applies to this as other 4-drive NAS's, you'll want to install them at least in pairs (if doing RAID 0 or 1). If you're going to want RAID 5 (and if the 4-drive unit supports it, which I assume it does), you'll want to install all 4 for best results. Edit: The 4-drive NAS's I've used only allow for 2 arrays, so don't plan on having 4 separate single-drive arrays.
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I am about to install a 6TB drive so I will let you know if I am successful but according to intel, it should be fine. The support of your HDD depends on the RAID card. This is a RAID expander and is only meant to extend an existing RAID controllers capacity of HDDs. This does not create a RAID array.UPDATE: I have installed my 6TB WD Red HDD and have no issues. Simply plugged it in, turned on my server, and it showed up in my OS (Linux Mint 17.1) without any issues. No configuration needed. Just plug and play.