Will this enclosure work with USB 2? What has to be done to set up the RAID?
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Yes it will work with USB 2. You set up a couple of jumper switches to set which raid mode you need. One word of caution, the manual doesn't make it clear at all, if the drives you are using are already set up in a raid format, get the data off some other way first, this device will wipe the drives clean, as if starting from scratch
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yes. And it requires setting a jumper in the enclosure to which raid type you want.
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Yes, it will also work with USB 2, but there are probably cheaper options for that. By default it is set to JBOD mode, there is a jumper that you switch one way or the other for RAID 0 or RAID 1. It is very easy to do and there are clear instructions in the included set up manual.
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Hi FYI I dont think that the unit will support a drive over 3TB. 2TB is the limit. But maybe the unit you get will You should make sure to check on that. mine does not. Sorry I cant answer you question I have never tried RAID with my units they are just dumb drives.
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here is what you needVantec Dual 3.5-Inch SATA to USB 3.0/eSATA External HDD Enclosure with Fan (NST-620S3R-BK)
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I believe so. I have a 5 drive raid at home & brought a new one home that I purchased for work & put the 5 drives in & the raid came right back. To me, this was VERY important if I ever have a failed Raid box. So in my case, it worked-but I did buy the 2 enclosures within a month of each other.
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i have this enclosure and it will only see 2TB, i tried a WD 4TB drive and all it saw was 1.8TB
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The Perc 5/i cannot use drives greater than 2TB. You would need to upgrade your RAID controller to a H700 before using this drive.
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The enclosure uses USB 3.0 which is backward compatible with USB 2.0. Your transfer speeds will suffer but it will work.
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use the Synology setup software and let it configure your raid (in this case it will likely use RAID5) ... if you are in need of extra redundancy due to high data security, switch to the manual setup and use RAID6 ... this configuration will use 2 spare drives and will reduce the amount of disk available significantly (the price to pay for very high data availability)DLLD
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Here is the way I did it. I bought this item: Sabrent USB 2.0/ESATA TO 3.5 Inch IDE or SATA/SATA II Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure Case with Cooling Fan (EC-UEIS7). it worked for me and then I used the hard drive for other things. Good luck
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The raid controller is embedded into the enclosure. Just connect the cabinet to the pc or Mac via usb 2 or 3, or esata. Configuration of the raid set is via a set of dip switches on the back of the unit.
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I use SHR (Synology Hybrid Raid) for ease and simplicity. Behaving fine since I booted it up. http://www.synology.com/products/spec.php?product_name=DS213%2B〈=us#p_submenu
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I have a 4 TB drive in this enclosure (and 3 2TB's). You must format (partition) the drive correctly. Do not format it as a MBR partition. It will only recognize 2 TB if you do that. Partition as GPT.
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I've tried connecting a 128ssd drive that is in a USB3.0 enclosure and it does not work. I don't believe the headunit can provide the power needed to power on the drive.This is my findings, as always, YMMV.
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This should be compatible with it. Any 2.5 HDDs I have used have been compatible with it.
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I don't think this will work. I assume your dead enclosure had a RAID configuration (which will require the disks to be read together). This unit does not do RAID.
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It should work as RAID set, if you do not need to see multiple drives, but if you want USB3.0 adapter support port multiplier protocol, look for "U3eSATA" in AMAZON
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I had 2TB intalled on this enclosure. I think it will work with a bigger hard drive like 6TB.