Can this raid card support recognize a 4TB hard drive and also does it support striping across 4 drives
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I know it can handle 2 tb because that is what I have. I THINK it depends more on bios.
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It will work for any system that's capable of handling a SATA-compatible drive. However, it's rather much overkill for a desktop system - you might be better off going with a WD Black-edition drive, in comparable capacity. The only situation I can see this being cost-effective, is if you have a large RAID array on your workstation, attached via *hardware* controller (MOBO-based controller or software controller is not comparable). In this scenario, a good LSI MegaRaid controller will be able to work effectively to give you a pretty solid array. Keep in mind, much of the draw for this device is the TRIM-capable controller chipset on the drive; Black or Green -series drives are not suitable for effective RAID configuration, as they don't have TRIM capacity in their onboard chipsets.
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There is no RAID inside this adapter. Some system boards have 'fake' RAID, but you have to go waaay back to get IDE RAID, now it's mostly SATA. Unlikely but possible to still find a card that does IDE RAID, PROMISE made some. As far as I know, the 'drives' (microSDs) enumerate as 0 and 1, a and b etc. to systems. No striping or mirroring going on without outside help. The slow and wear-prone media of most microSD just doesn't make good RAID sense anyway.
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No. Raid Mode Support Raid 0 (Spanning) JBOD Raid 0 (Stripping) Raid 1 (Mirroring) Raid 3 (Stripped set with dedicated parity) Raid 5 (Striped set with distributed parity) Raid 10 (Mirroring + Striping) Raid 50 http://www.mediasonicstore.com/servlet/the-24/Mediasonic-ProRaid-8-Bay/Detail
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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.
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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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Yes, I have two internal drives running off this card, paired in a RAID 1, set up through Win 7. If your motherboard and OS supports RAID, it's not a problem.
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its an explander card it plugs into the raid controller to add a bunch more ports to the controller to add a lot more drives then the controller can handle natively
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I have 4 x 6TB drives, 4 x 5TB drives driven by this card. There is no issue. I have no clue what post from t4d is about. Don't believe such non-sense. Enterprise networking is my bread and butter.
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Has been working fine currently with 4 x WD Red 3 TB NAS Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, SATA, RAID, ESXI 5. The spec should be on HP support site http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/psi/home/?cc=us〈=en&sp4ts.oi;d=5379860&ac.admitted;=1397833615906.876444892.492883150
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1) I've never seen anything like that -- and I check regularly for USB 3 cards (and also SATA III cards). 2) It is EXTREMELY unlikely ANYONE puts out a card that will do RAID with ESATA (as opposed to internal SATA). RAID is set up under the assumption that all the disks will be treated as a single unit. I don't know of anyone who would be using EXTERNAL drives for RAID. 3) Keep in mind that this is PCIe x ONE, not 4 or 8 or 16. That means it has limited bandwidth. You MIGHT be able to find a PCIe-x1 card that can handle 2-disk MIRRORED RAID (I think that's RAID 10), but with more disks (i.e., striping as opposed to mirroring), an x1 card probably couldn't handle the throughput of modern drives. You could still read and write to the drives, but there would be no speed advantage to using multi-disk striped RAID.
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Yes, you can just use it as a regular SATA controller, you don't have to set up RAID if you don't want to. That's how I use it.
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If it accepts 3tb drives (which is does) then I see no reason for it not to accept 4tb drives. The limit is at 2tb.
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No, I am using it in a non-raid setup. I did try to use it with a 2 TB drive as a 4th drive. It didn't work. I then put a 500 MB drive on it and it worked. I put the 2 TB directly on a standard sata port.
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StarTech PEXESAT32 2 Port SATA 6 Gbps PCI Express eSATA Controller Card states that it supports RAID0 and RAID1
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I don't think so. This is just a cheap alternative to more expensive RAID products.However, I think it will work on the specified chipset you mention. But definitely not in RAID mode.
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The 4TB version has 2-2TB drives hence 4TB. That is in RAID 0 format. If you setup RAID 1 you only have 2TB usable.Good luck