Is there a way to get S.M.A.R.T. data from the drives using the enclosure?
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I am able to retrieve S.M.A.R.T. data in my linux install, unsure about Windows. I am not using the included rocketraid controller however.
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You can read them on a Linux box or any PC booted with rescue Linux cd. There are guides on how to do this. or buy used on ebay for $60 (that's what I did) or send your drives to someone who has similar hp unit
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Try Seagate at: http://www.seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/laptop-hard-drives/momentus-laptop/
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Yes, it only provides access to the drive via USB.You will need separate software for reading different filesystems (e.g. reading a windows hard drive from Mac / Linux) or any other operations you want to perform on the drive.
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If you are using the same enclosure, then you should try my previous answer. If not, I'd download a Linux Live-CD attach ONE of the disk via USB adapter, rescue my info and then retry rebuilding the R1 array. Knoppix Live-CD seems to do a great job at this and it is easy to use.
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Yes; I have extracted a number of laptop drives from dead laptops and used in this manner. Any drive enclosure made for appropriate drive type will work.
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No, it is a bare drive. I used a usb2IDE appliance and Clonezilla, a free OpenSource download.
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I used the system profiler to check mine. I believe you can right click and select get info to see the specifics of the drive as well
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To my knowledge that is handled by your bios and the hdd itself. So as long as your mobo and hdd are smart compatible the enclosure dosnt figure into it.
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I am not sure if that would work. But you could go out on the Seagate Web Site and ask that question of their technical department and they should be able to answer it.
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it is both clone and enclosure. You have a switch on the back of this unit. Drives should show up as soon as they are mounted (I had a defective unit that worked only for one day)
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I just put a 3TB Seagate drive in one of these and it worked. One of my laptops had a weird issue, but other machines did not. TDMSERVICE.EXE consumed massive amounts of RAM (3+GB) a few times before it acted normal. A different laptop of the same make/model did not have the same problem. That first laptop has issues adding hardware anyways, so I don't think it's a combination of the enclosure and drive.
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I am not sure, but here is where you should be able to find out: http://www.seagate.com/support/external-hard-drives/
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You need a SATA to USB converter with power. Something like: Sabrent USB 2.0 TO SATA/IDE 2.5/3.5/-INCH Hard Drive Converter EC-AHDD
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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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Not as a standard option, the connections are but drives are not, if you are willing to access the Linus O/S then here is a link to consider: http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/encrypted-filesystem
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Well, I do not know as it seems pretty neatly closed, but there is always the alternative to use an external and/or network accessible drives. That's what I do over a Gigabit network. Good luck.