Will the 104 operate with 2 (or 3) drives or do I need all 4 drives
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Yes it does operate with 2, 3 or 4 drives. As you add more drives you have the option to switch to higher RAID configurations.
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Yes, you can operate this with just 1 HDD or you can operate it with all 4. Just to give you additional information about this NAS. A lot of the negative comments about it were true. This thing used to freeze up all the time for me when transferring small or large files. With the latest firmware all of those issues have been corrected and it's a really good product. Just make sure you update to the latest firmware before you do anything. Hope this has been helpful. :)
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You can start with one drive and add drives as needed. Of course if you don't use at least 2 drives you can't RAID them. The NAS will pick an appropriate RAID configuration automatically, but you can override it if you like. You can even mix disk sizes but that is not the best solution. You should use SATA 6 drives. As you add new drives the system recognizes them and reconfigures your system.
512635
It will Operate just fine with 2 drives with default setting, 3 or more drives the the System of raid can be change.
2082982
I've used it for 9 DVD-Roms\Blueray drives just fine. You will have slowdown if they're all running at once, but I never had them drop like with other hubs.
378105
You can mix drives all you want as each drive is independent, it does not combine them into one drive. You will need 8 drive letters.
2129244
DS415 is a 4 bay. I didnt need 4 disks so I went with DS713. This is one major difference, there may be others.
1848758
The one I received didn't work at all. I returned it for a Drobo. I use 2TB drives in the Drobo so I don't know about 4 in that.
1575674
As to specifically handling a 3TB drive, I can not state, although the unit will handle a combined total of 16TB, I have a 2.5 TB drive in my unit and it works very well
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You sure can, I have four drives in actually. Good case to use for any basic build. Just be careful with large RAM, I did have to get creative with my new corsair 8gb because it was interfering with one Hard drive
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I believe by default they come in a RAID 1, which would give you 2TB of total storage. If you set it to RAID0, you'll get use of all 4TB (probably 3.6 or so useable) but you will not have redundancy.
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There's two types of drives for these you may want to check what you have before ordering
699002
Yes,I use 3 sans digital 8 bays and added this one to the group and put 3tb drives in it.WORKS GREAT!
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The drive is capable of 6. Works fine at 3. May see increase in speed over 3 only drive due to buffering
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Yes you can as long as none of the drives has an operating system on them. You do not need to format or do anything to your drives. You will need a port multiplier card for eSata in order to see all 4 drives, but after that you're good to go.
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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
2266447
No it won't support 4TB drives. According to the specs it will support 3TB.
558270
RAID 0,1 and SHR (Synology Hybrid Raid). With only 2 drives you can't get 5.
532978
Hi to the best of my knowledge an experience on a Windows platform it shows as 2 separate drives. On the Mac os it shows as 1 drive.
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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