Can this be run without RAID? I have had nothing but bad luck with raid so I want to avoid raid.
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Yes Type JBOD is one or more drive not in a RAID manage as separate driveOrAlso Spanning Combination of all drive into one logical volume I use Raid 5 with WD red hard drive work great with 4 drives
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Yes, I'm running the 8tb version and it has the full 8tb, but for some reason I think the device used the first drive closes to the power button first for storage in this setup, but yes it works!
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Absolutely. For the how-to setup go to pcworld/pcmag/cnet and read the test reviews. Several magazines talked about how to use this device in a non-RAID configuration.
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Of course it can, but raid is the reason you buy something like this. By the way, this is a bad machine. Very slow and kind of useless. I returned and bought synology 1513
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I do not know the direct answer to your question.If RAID is of no importance to you, why not simply buy an external drive for supplemental storage or for backup?I use RAID for its data redundancy.If that is of no importance, why bother with a RAID enabled device?Cheaper and high quality alternatives exist.
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Yes Type JBOD is one or more drive not in a RAID manage as separate drive Or Also Spanning Combination of all drive into one logical volume I use Raid 5 with WD red hard drive work great with 4 drives
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This card is not capable of Hardware RAID configurations. If you were previously using your motherboard for that functionality then you will lose it when you move over your hard drives to this card. If you still want to keep some form of RAID then you could look into Software RAID. Windows 7 has this functionality built in. Just keep in mind that Software RAID does not perform as fast as Hardware RAID and I don't recommend it unless it's your only option or you just need it for data redundancy. Remember to back up your data if you are going to try and setup a Software RAID on your existing drives! Good luck. This card is not capable of Hardware RAID configurations. If you were previously using your motherboard for that functionality then you will lose it when you move over your hard drives to this card. If you still want to keep some form of RAID then you could look into Software RAID. Windows 7 has this functionality built in. Just keep in mind that Software RAID does not perform as fast as Hardware RAID and I don't recommend it unless it's your only option or you just need it for data redundancy. Remember to back up your data if you are going to try and setup a Software RAID on your existing... » Read More This card is not capable of Hardware RAID configurations. If you were previously using your motherboard for that functionality then you will lose it when you move over your hard drives to this card. If you still want to keep some form of RAID then you could look into Software RAID. Windows 7 has this functionality built in. Just keep in mind that Software RAID does not perform as fast as Hardware RAID and I don't recommend it unless it's your only option or you just need it for data redundancy. Remember to back up your data if you are going to try and setup a Software RAID on your existing drives! Good luck. « Show Less
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In the past RAID has been a hardware supported function. I don't use this in a RAID setup as I only have two drives in it so far. You should view this as four separate USB to SATA bridges. Any RAID function you want to use will have to be 100% software implemented.
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This version is an HBA only, not a RAID card, so not only *can* you use it as non-raid, you must.
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Can you run RAID that way? Id like to install 2 2TB drives, for large capacity RAID.
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Does it create a copy onto a drive which can be removed, like RAID1, so that you have a copy of everything? I want to take a disk with everything on it, remove it, and put it in a safe. I will rotate these. Does this make sense? Thanks.
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I am using 2 WD RE4 drives independently (not in RAID) in my desktop computer. I know there is some scary discussion about them only working in a RAID array, but I don't have any problems.
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Hello fellow Transcend card user:First of all, I am not using my card in a RAID configuration. However, I do believe your assumption is correct. I have an ASUS MoBo and to access the installed RAID functionality of the MoBo, I have to attach the hard drives directly to a specific set of SATA III I/O ports. You may want to check your MoBo manual for such requirements. You may also want to pose this question to your Mobo manufacturer. Further, you may want to consider running your RAID configuration from a USB-3 and/or e-SATA external RAID enclosure. Hope this information can be of some help - Good luck. Hello fellow Transcend card user:First of all, I am not using my card in a RAID configuration. However, I do believe your assumption is correct. I have an ASUS MoBo and to access the installed RAID functionality of the MoBo, I have to attach the hard drives directly to a specific set of SATA III I/O ports. You may want to check your MoBo manual for such requirements. You may also want to pose this question to your Mobo manufacturer. Further, you may want to consider running your RAID configuration from a USB-3 and/or e-SATA external RAID enclosure. Hope this information can be of some... » Read More Hello fellow Transcend card user:First of all, I am not using my card in a RAID configuration. However, I do believe your assumption is correct. I have an ASUS MoBo and to access the installed RAID functionality of the MoBo, I have to attach the hard drives directly to a specific set of SATA III I/O ports. You may want to check your MoBo manual for such requirements. You may also want to pose this question to your Mobo manufacturer. Further, you may want to consider running your RAID configuration from a USB-3 and/or e-SATA external RAID enclosure. Hope this information can be of some help - Good luck. « Show Less
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Not sure why you would want to do it that way. With mirrored drives you already have drive redundancy. If a drive goes bad, pull it out and put in the new drive. There are better ways to provide for offsite backup than to keep pulling a drive and having the raid rebuild itself.
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i have run dual raid 0 i have raid 10 and raid 1 i have not tryed dual raid 1 but it shold work fine
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This model does NOT support RAID, though you could have them run independently and have one serve TV shows while the other does movies and music for example. They would just have different unc paths.
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Its not that easy, If you had this enclosure already, yes, just drop in your disks and as long as you have not made any changes to the software it will be just like before. But based on what you are saying, you had a 4 Disk array, and not a 5 disk array as shown here. There is a way to salvage your files, you can create or set this device to raid 5 mode if that is what you had, and then put your disks in and let it rebuild the array, but only if the technology behind what you had is exactly the same as what this enclosure supports. With raid 5 you have to deal with parity bits, and not all raid 5 parities are created equal. But if you did not have a raid array configured on your old enclosure and each disks was treated as a single disk, then yes, you can make this work with no loss of files. If you could give a few more details, I may be able to tell you how to salvage your files. I had this enclosure, and my power went out, it was as simple as plugging in my disks and plugging it into my server. But I don't think you have the same situation. There are third party utilities that may help you to salvage your files either way. But I have had three of these units ever since the day they were first released, and that has been a few years. They even work great with Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1. Very fast, says it only supports up to 2 GB Drives, but I'm running 3GB, 6GBs, 7200 RPM drives with no problem. But I don't use the built in raid, I use windows Storage Spaces found in Server 2012 R2, Windows 8 and above. I have this unit distributed across 2 Servers with 8 Hyper V machines on each one. One on eSata and one on USB 3.0. Can't tell the difference, just make sure you have a solid eSATA card or equivalent if you decide to purchase this, if not you will need to run USB 3.0 for the performance.
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Yes, It is very conservative when it comes for the disks. My diskstation rejected 2 hard drives of mine that I never suspected. One of those disks died one month later. Anyway the raid config is still the best choice to avoid surprises.
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Hi, I use Ubuntu. Unfirtunately there is no linux driver for this fake HW Raid. Goods news that u may dont need it. I use Btrfs filesystem, which has a builtin raid support. I use only mirroring to be safe...
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I have 5 of these drives in a Sans Digital RAID box configured as two 2TB RAID 1 drives with a hot standby replacement drive. I've been running almost two years with no problems. I chose the lower spin rate (5400RPM) to be more reliable. I use the RAID 1 drives for backup/archive of other computers.
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I had not attempted raid yet, it does however afford me a score of 7.9 on win 7 x64 with a sata III SSD though....
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Technically, I doubt it. If you treat it as a series of JBOD disks, maybe, but anything with RAID will require the unit reformat all drives. In general, I don't recommend the unit -- it's slow, it's finicky, etc.