How many drives can be connected to this total?
1083033
I know you can do at least 8 directly on the controller, more if you use an expander card.
1083034
8 SATA drives using 2 cables, it has 2 SAS connectors, 4 SATA drives per connectors, SAS to SATA, "Serial Attached SCSI" SAS allows up to 65,535 devices through the use of expanders
1083035
Without the use of port expanders, backplanes, or enclosures 8 drives can be connected. 255 otherwise, to my knowledge.
66178
Yes it will work. I'm using it in this configuration with 2 Seagate 6TB drive. Seems like you will have full speed up to 4 drives then half of it up to 8 drives.
468563
Unless there is a secret I am not aware of, you can only have 26 drives in most windows systems. Not sure about Mac. None the less, one of those drives would need to be your OS as well leaving you with 25. Not everything one plugs into USB is a drive to take up a letter. I dont think that was the intention of having 28 ports. :)So to answer your question, I think the most you could copy is 25 at one time. You could do that using GoodSync.
1273364
But how would you add more than one external drive? Would you just use a USB hub?
399563
Yes, you can have any number of hard drives installed (from 1 to 5), you will be limited to certain Raid configurations depending on the number of drives installed. Synology website is very useful in helping to determine the proper configuration.
2158005
Yes, it can powered all the drives at same time. But this can't use as network media server.
1065025
I've been trying this with no success. A single drive through a 7-port usb hub worked fine. However, upon connecting three drives, one TB drive became corrupted and had to be reformatted! The other two TB drives were connected and able to be shared. Upon both hookups my wired connection continued to lose and regain internet; followed by not being able to access the router admin from firefox. At this point I'm ready to just connect a single tb drive and give up on multiple drives. If I have any later success I'll post again. Good luck.
399565
Yes. The redundancy level will vary by the number of drives but you can certainly start with 3 and add more later on.
1377491
Yes but how many eSATA connections does your 4 drive enclosure take? 2 well you need two of these then.
1094855
Assuming you have the letters available for the drives and each drive is powered, you could but the transfer speed will be horrible. I don't think I've pushed harder than 5 drives hooked up
1884010
This is an expansion unit, that allow you to add up to 12 more drives to DS2413+ or DS3612xs. This expansion unit, by itself, does not do anything.
515638
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.
911535
I don't know the maximum. I'm just using it for JBOD and not RAID. I needed more SATA ports.
2123226
Robert, The Certified Servers team appreciates your question. This particular listing comes with (4) 1 TB 7.2K SATA drives.
498298
You could use two like that but it would not be daisy chaining. There would be no connection from the first drive to the second, but the computer would see both.
2020842
One drive-likely no problem. You could try attaching 2 drives and might be fine, I am not sure. Again, to be safe, buy a "powered"hub.
936429
You can keep your drives as is. There is no hardware RAID so it will read four drives independently.