Can you move a raid array of drives from a motherboard controller straight to this without having to backup data first?
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I would guess with about 99.998% certainty....no. You will need to back up those drives. I'd say preferrably, you will buy all new drives for this or any NAS enclosure you're setting up. HTH.
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depend on yore RAID, can be done using JBOD if you use RAID0 to RAID5 every drive/s you add will have to be its own RAID
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No, this isn't a RAID (although there is a version of this that does support RAID). I bought it as a replacement for a couple of hard drive docks that were giving me trouble and it worked perfectly and other than Windows having to re-recognize the drives Windows never even made a blip.
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You can use it with one drive but you will not be able to use a RAID configuration.
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JBOD or even a mix of different RAID arrays (i.e. a 2 drive RAID1 and a 3 drive RAID5) is possible.
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This card doesn't actually do RAID (it's all done in software) so there is not really any restriction in how you can use it. For instance I used mine with 4 drives connected to this card and another to the on-board controller, for a total of 5 drives in the array.
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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 haven't finished my build yet but it's supposed to do it all. I plan to do RAID 10 on my OS and RAID 50 on my data drive.
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As far as I know from the documentation, if you place the drives in with the dip switches set to JBOD then you should be fine. I'm not sure how well that functions since I was mainly interested in the HW RAID.
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No, this is a clone tool for 2 drives not in use or if you have an internal drive that is not primary. If you have 2 drives and don't want to run software to copy them this is the way to do it. Keep in mind its not instant. I copied a 3tb drive and it took 3.5 hours. It can also be used to create a RAID but I wouldn't use it in production.
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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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The Power rails on mine can't support more than one drive at a time (thing broke within two weeks or so). I wouldn't rely on it for heavy server storage loads.
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Thank you. The board is an ASUS Sabertooth Z87 with a RAID controller onboard. I want to use both a RAID data array and SSD drives for OS. I am told the board can do this but I'm unsure about setup of this feature and thought the card may be an easier way to control the array and set the BIOS for hot swap SATA and let the card control the array. Maybe I should look at a different RAID card.
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Not really. You would have to format the existing drives when you added the new ones. What you're describing *might* be possible if you used the JBOD (just a bunch of disks) configuration, but not for any RAID. For all their RAID configs, you have to choose the number and size of disks at creation, and you can't change it without reformatting.
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I have 3TB and 4TB drives in there. They are just straight pass throughs for the most part, depends more on the BIOS of your motherboard.
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This device will neither allow or disallow that. This converter will merely allow you to mount 2 drives in one bay. If your motherboard has RAID capabilities then yes, you can configure 2 drives as one.
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Yes you can. I am currently running RAID5 with 4 3TB WD Red hard drives, 1 bay is open.