Can I use this to run the recovery disks for a pc? I want to network a working PC with a PC that has new HDD and no OS (cd drive is bad).
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I'm looking at the instructions and mine is good for OS's that are Windows 98se,me,2000, and vista.I f that is the case then it might work. make sure its going to the PC with out the OS. You also might try to connect-somehow- to a CD drive and the PC without the OS and try to run the recovery disk..there website is www.thetornado.com/site/support.shtml....hope it works bob
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You could definitely do that, but for less tech-savvy users this is very good. Additionally, it is power-efficient, the software is very solid, and set-up is easy. I got one because i didn't want to fiddle with FreeNas. The community that supports the DiskStations is massive, too.In essence, this thing is simlpy a NAS, and a very stable one at that. A dedicated PC like what you mentioned could and would be much more that a NAS, and if you were only using it as a NAS you would be wasting a whole lot of power. Go to the synology website and check out the DSM 5.0 demo. The software that they made for this hardware is quite slick. You could definitely do that, but for less tech-savvy users this is very good. Additionally, it is power-efficient, the software is very solid, and set-up is easy. I got one because i didn't want to fiddle with FreeNas. The community that supports the DiskStations is massive, too.In essence, this thing is simlpy a NAS, and a very stable one at that. A dedicated PC like what you mentioned could and would be much more that a NAS, and if you were only using it as a NAS you would be wasting a whole lot of power. Go to the synology website and check out the DSM 5.0 demo. The software... » Read More You could definitely do that, but for less tech-savvy users this is very good. Additionally, it is power-efficient, the software is very solid, and set-up is easy. I got one because i didn't want to fiddle with FreeNas. The community that supports the DiskStations is massive, too.In essence, this thing is simlpy a NAS, and a very stable one at that. A dedicated PC like what you mentioned could and would be much more that a NAS, and if you were only using it as a NAS you would be wasting a whole lot of power. Go to the synology website and check out the DSM 5.0 demo. The software that they made for this hardware is quite slick. « Show Less
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This device is not a stand-alone solution for storage like a NAS device would be. It also does not have the ability to be connected via eSATA without some kind of intermediary eSATA to SATA converting cable or device. For me I connected an un-used ATX power supply that had SATA power connections to the HDDRACK5, then hooked the drives directly to controller cards in a PC.
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I was just able to partition a drive and load it on both computers. I've been useing a lot of answers from the internet for loading and moveing stuff around.
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I do not know--this was so unreliable I have stopped using it. It did not matter what drives I used--none would stay connected. Also, realize you can only use one at a time.
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Not a computer expert.... used this drive on a old desktop computer running win98.... worked for me.....good luck.
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It will work as long as you have an empty drive bay to install it in and a vacant SATA connector on your motherboard. You should have both unless you have added another drive in the past. I personally would create recovery disks and install the solid state drive as the main drive with your os installed on it. Your computer will boot faster, programs will open in a quarter of the time they are opening now. The down side is you need to know how to save all your important data and transfer it to your newly installed drive.
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yes, it is easy to map as a network drive. I have mapped it to both Windows 7 and 8, as well as Linux
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Depends on the backup software, but generally yes. You connect them not directly, but by attaching the drive to a compatible router on your network. Some routers have USB jacks for hard drives. Do a search on "attach hard drive to router" and you'll get information. This is called "network attached storage" (NAS for short), by the way.
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You can hook up the drive but you might need a recovery program - I suggest "icare" - good program.
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My off-the-top-of-my-head remark is that if your RAIDing is software RAID, so the jumper in the enclosure is in the JBOD position, then yes. If you used the jumper to set RAID1 in hardware then I am doubtful, because it's difficult to know whether extra information gets written to the disks that might confuse the PC. The fact that you say "PC" suggests you mean Windows and I should add I know nothing about Windows: I use my enclosure under Linux.
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The only operating system I have used it with is Windows 8.1, I recommend 8.1 over 8. I had trouble with plain 8. Drive just does what it supposed to with 8.1 operating system. Installs with no effort.
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The question is more of the interface than the OS. I was unable to use my unit as the SATA interface was incompatible. Check your hardware before your software.
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Check he website. I think I saw some programs that you could download. But the drive works like any other so you can just use your OS backup software which works like a charm. It's really plug and play, no software needed.
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I bought for something other than a Pc, so I'm not sure. What operating system? I recently had to learn a trick to get my PC to assign the drive. It saw it, but did nothing with it until I took a certain step.
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Yes, but honestly I wouldn't recommend it. Having a drive fail on that setup would kill you and the interface that your presented with on this device really limits the usability of anything over 2tb
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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.