How many internal drive bays? Does it support drives bigger than 2 TB? Can you add external usb drives?
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I used 4TB drives. I also have a USB 3.0 adapter and a RocketRaid card for use with an external 4-Bay RAID box. In the 51/4" bay, I put one of those slim DVD / 2.5" combo brackets. For the DVD I am using a slot load Blu-Ray and the 2.5" bay is for SSD running Server Essentials 2012. The SSD is plugged into the internal DVD sata port, and the BD drive is running off an internal USB port connected to a USB>Sata converter pulled from an old WD MyBook external drive.
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4 bays plus an internal/external position front-top that could be an optical (DVD/CD) or used as internal. Front & back USB ports and maybe one on the board inside. Not certain about >2TB, running 2's here.
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There are four internal 3.5" drive bays. There is, additionally, a 5.25" external drive bay that isn't used that some people use to hook up additional disks with an adapter. 4TB disks work in this system, if your operating system supports them. I've been particularly happy with WD Red disks in this chassis.
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There are 4 quick removal and you can use the top 5.25 bay with an adaptor to give you 5 total. I'm running 2TB drives for my NAS, so I can't speak to bigger drives. I would suggest low power drives if you run 5 drives for thermal reasons.
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There are 4 drive bays. I haven't done so, but I understand you can rig the DVD slot for an additional drive. I have already added USB external without a problem. As far as the larger that 2TB drives - sorry, I haven't tried that. I'm running two small drives to handle the OS in a RAID configuration and 2-2TB drives in a RAID for everything else. Just haven't had a reason to upgrade beyond 2TB yet.
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4 internal bays with caddies. Bios will support 6 HDD with unauthorized BIOS flash, and the extra 2 HDD can go in the 5 1/4 bays for DVD, etc. To add the 2 drives will take some expertise and extra cables, so I'll leave the details up to your web data mining prowess. It has 2 external USB 2.0 and 1 internal USB 2.0. Mine has 2 4TB WD and an SSD system disk. It runs Win7 and Ubuntu for me. Buy the memory upgrade to 8GB. No hardware problems at all - highly recommended. Not much in the way of graphics and fast CPU, but as a data or media server it is fine. It has 1@1 gig ethernet port, and can be remote booted (not tested by me). 4 internal bays with caddies. Bios will support 6 HDD with unauthorized BIOS flash, and the extra 2 HDD can go in the 5 1/4 bays for DVD, etc. To add the 2 drives will take some expertise and extra cables, so I'll leave the details up to your web data mining prowess. It has 2 external USB 2.0 and 1 internal USB 2.0. Mine has 2 4TB WD and an SSD system disk. It runs Win7 and Ubuntu for me. Buy the memory upgrade to 8GB. No hardware problems at all - highly recommended. Not much in the way of graphics and fast CPU, but as a data or media server it is fine. It has 1@1 gig ethernet port, and... » Read More 4 internal bays with caddies. Bios will support 6 HDD with unauthorized BIOS flash, and the extra 2 HDD can go in the 5 1/4 bays for DVD, etc. To add the 2 drives will take some expertise and extra cables, so I'll leave the details up to your web data mining prowess. It has 2 external USB 2.0 and 1 internal USB 2.0. Mine has 2 4TB WD and an SSD system disk. It runs Win7 and Ubuntu for me. Buy the memory upgrade to 8GB. No hardware problems at all - highly recommended. Not much in the way of graphics and fast CPU, but as a data or media server it is fine. It has 1@1 gig ethernet port, and can be remote booted (not tested by me). « Show Less
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4 internal drive bays - non hotswap. Mine (running Linux) does not recognise 3TB drive, newer ones might. Yes you can add external USG drives. 4 USB 2.0 ports in front and 2 in back,
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The Synology website says that 6TB drives are supported. Check the drive that you are planning on getting with their list to be sure.
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This is a question that changes with time. As of the date I write this, the Mobius has been tested to 6TB/bay, and I am successfully using a 6TB drive myself. They say they are preparing to test 8TB drives, but until tested they won't say for sure that it will support it. Interestingly, the SATA standard actually supports 48-bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA), which allows for disks up to 144 PETAbytes (144,000 TB!) in size. So, as long as each manufacturer holds to that standard, you should effectively be able to put ANY size drive in the enclosure far into the future. However, only 6TB/bay has been tested as of the date I write this.
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I installed a 2TB Western Digital internal drive and it works just fine. You can transfer files from your main PC onto this internal drive with the supplied cable that comes with this unit.My set up works great
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It will do two 2-terabyte drives. Make sure you update to the latest drivers though or it won't.
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My experience is all the 15" laptops I come across support a second bay in the disk drive location, but you have to find a special 3rd party insert for it. I'm tempted to put BACK in the default HD because I upgrade to a SSD, but even a 240g drive is pretty tiny.
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Sorry...don't know. I only have a Synology NAS, so no experience on the external USB HDs
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While I have not verified this myself, the Specifications on the outside of the box shows "HDD Size Supports up to 2 TB"
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There are 4 main drive bays and 2 internal bays for ZIL and L2ARC upgrades. You need your own power and Sata cables. The routing of the cables is Very Tight!!! I put 2 Solid state drives there and it worked great.Hope this helps
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There won't be enough room for two 3.5" drives, but, if you buy a dual 2.5" drive to 3.5" bay adapter, you can mount two drives. You also can mount one 3.5" drive and tape up to two 2.5" solid-state drives near the front of the chassis (with no moving parts, they don't need to be secured as well), and there are plenty of SATA connectors onboard. Note that the only cooling fan is a very small one on the power supply unit, so I'd recommend going with solid-state drives anyway if heat concerns you. I'm very happy with this purchase, and I use no PCI card, just the onboard video, onboard network, onboard management interface, onboard SATA controller, and software RAID. There won't be enough room for two 3.5" drives, but, if you buy a dual 2.5" drive to 3.5" bay adapter, you can mount two drives. You also can mount one 3.5" drive and tape up to two 2.5" solid-state drives near the front of the chassis (with no moving parts, they don't need to be secured as well), and there are plenty of SATA connectors onboard. Note that the only cooling fan is a very small one on the power supply unit, so I'd recommend going with solid-state drives anyway if heat concerns you. I'm very happy with this purchase, and I use no PCI card, just the... » Read More There won't be enough room for two 3.5" drives, but, if you buy a dual 2.5" drive to 3.5" bay adapter, you can mount two drives. You also can mount one 3.5" drive and tape up to two 2.5" solid-state drives near the front of the chassis (with no moving parts, they don't need to be secured as well), and there are plenty of SATA connectors onboard. Note that the only cooling fan is a very small one on the power supply unit, so I'd recommend going with solid-state drives anyway if heat concerns you. I'm very happy with this purchase, and I use no PCI card, just the onboard video, onboard network, onboard management interface, onboard SATA controller, and software RAID. « Show Less
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Thanks for your information. I did also find out that there's a sata port intended for an optical drive. If so, then I can mount the SSD in that bay and still have all 4 bays for data. Now - does anybody know if the BIOS can handle 3TB drives without repartitioning?
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There is no drive included, but there is a bay that supports 2.5 inch drives. I currently use a 240gb mSATA for the OS and 1tb for misc files and media.
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It doesnt have room for internal drives, just external ones, via USB.By default I would recomend to format the drive with extFAT, for compatibility, FAT32 gives too much restrictions for HD video, and NTFS would give you problems with other devices.
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If it specifies the capacity (eg, 2TB, 4TB) then yes. It can definitely handle up to two 2TB drives, unsure about the newer larger drives. Otherwise is should say "diskless".
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I just now went to the manufacturers web site and downloaded the user manual for this device. And in the manual it states that it supports drives up to 4TB depending on the operating system you are using. Go to this link and you can download the manual to see for yourself. URL: http://www.cavalrystorage.com/en-cahdd-u3c.aspx
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There are 1000 gbs in a tb. So, lots of space. And, YES - this comes with the usb cord.
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You can configure the drive to be either 4 TB or 8 TB. The device itself only contains two 4TB drives.