Does this unit come with 6 trays or two? Any additional equipment needed to go to capacity 6 HDD's? Raid controller?
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Comes w/ 2 SAS drives. It has six SAS slot total. You need to buy additional 4 SAS drives. Perc 5i RAID card & DRAC 5 included.
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No, I am using it in a non-raid setup. I did try to use it with a 2 TB drive as a 4th drive. It didn't work. I then put a 500 MB drive on it and it worked. I put the 2 TB directly on a standard sata port.
2099753
i think proraid supports raid functionality, this is the one i have and i'm using raid 5the other one does not contain raid functionality and is just a straigt forward enclosure that will give you one volume per HD installed at least.
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You can start with one drive and add drives as needed. Of course if you don't use at least 2 drives you can't RAID them. The NAS will pick an appropriate RAID configuration automatically, but you can override it if you like. You can even mix disk sizes but that is not the best solution. You should use SATA 6 drives. As you add new drives the system recognizes them and reconfigures your system.
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Honestly, I only have 2 2TB drives installed and never had any problems since I first bought it! I don't see why it should not support 2 6TB drives! Hope this helps!
1738949
it does handle hot swaps as well, have mine set as a raid 6 (6 drives) two hot spares
2099637
Yes includes the drive trays, the front of the unit is where the trays come in and out from.
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I put 5 each 3tb WD Red drives in my Thecus and set up a RAID 6. I think you can use any number of drives of any size. Just keep in mind that if you use RAID it will only be a percentage of the smallest drive in the array.
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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, it comes with two 7200 rpm drives already in place. And it is capable of being set for either Raid 1 or Raid 0. Just remember that if you decide to change between either Raid 1 or 0 that you will lose all data previously saved. So make sure you know which one you want to use before starting.
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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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it comes with none. The hard drives are sold separately. You can hold up to 12TB using 4 HDs of 3TB each when using linear RAID partition.
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Hello, You could definitely add upto 4 disks into the synology NAS drive. The maximum capacity for this server is 16TB. I have put 3, 2TBs of drives as those were the ones easily available.
2015610
Yes the software allows different configurations of RAID or independent configurations. I current have 2 4tb velo drives and they are configured as two individual drives. This is accomplished by selecting flex-Raid and not X- Raid during the setup process.
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RAID requires multiple drives. RAID stands for (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks). Redundancy is it's primary function. This could be used to create one but only as a component. You also need a RAID controller either in hardware or in software (sometimes in the OS). This device can fit only 2.5"drives, of which it will hold six. I don't think you have the expertise to build one on your own. Read about RAID on Wikipedia and the other answers.
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It has several sata connectors. Probably more than you will ever need unless your building a 12+ disk nas or something similar.
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We have the seller here indicating that this enclosure will work with a 6Tb drive, whereas there is another question raising an inability to run a 4Tb drive - which is answered by a comment that a 2Tb drive was successfully housed. We need to have the seller or manufacturer settle these questions. IS THERE an upper limit to drive capacity; or are there any limits to drive type or SATA permutations?