can one raid created in one operating system be accessible in another (i.e. exfat format raid)?
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I do believe it will. I'll boot to a linux USB, but the RocketRAID (NTFS) initializes in POST by motherboard firmware before Windows loads.
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Question is a little Vague, I need more information on what your trying to do. In theory, Yes.
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Will the RAID work? Sure. This is handled by the card itself. You just have to make sure you're using the proper drivers.Will the filesystem itself work across operating systems? Maybe. ExFAT, FAT, and NTFS have support on Windows, OSX, and Linux. More cutting edge filesystems like BTRFS are limited to Linux.
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SHR is more flexible, if you want to upgrade to larger drives later. No downside -- you're locked into the technology once you but the DiskStation, so you may was well leverage the proprietary RAID
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Depends on the RAID card, it may format during the recovery. It is unlikely you would need to, but deleting the partitions in Windows Disk Management will be enough to prep the drive if all else fails.
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This is not a NAS it is hardware RAID it's just like a RAID controller in a server you can partition and format the RAID volume in any way supported by the OS. I've even used these with Mac OS X and Linux and had no problems with MBR or GPT partition tables, complicated partition schemes, HFS+, LVM, BTRFS, XFS etc. With Windows 7 or newer it registers as an internal disk instead of a removable drive so NTFS works but you will have to jump through some hoops to get FAT32 just like you would with a regular disk ExFAT may be easier. FAT32 has some applications but is insecure that's why MS made it difficult to access in newer OS.
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The drives can be different sizes, but if you want the redundancy of the Raid architecture they should be the same size. You can run them as standalone non-raid drives and then they can be different sizes. SATA drives are required.
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Either is possible, it has two drives in it and can be used as Raid 1 or you can use them as Raid 0. From recollection it comes preconfigured to be used as Raid 0 - taking more advantage of the the thunderbolt interface.
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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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Nope, that's only possible if you use XRAID (let the NAS auto handle the RAID levels). If you manually configure it as RAID1 initially using FlexRAID, you don't get the option to convert it to a RAID5 when you add in another disk later. You'll need to use at least 3 HDD to start with RAID5.
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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.
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Yes, you can create two distinct drives, each with different RAID settings.
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Why would you need to do that? This is an array you would pop the bad drive out slap a new one in and it would rebuild the data on its own. The default is raid 1 but you can customize to your preference.
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Yes, but it has to be formatted to exFAT if you want the files to be over 4gbs. (NTFS also for Windows)
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Drives are included and although it comes pre-configured raid 0 it can be formatted raid 1
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You do not want to use NTFS due to it does more read/writes than necessary. Use exfat and it will also be more compatable to other OS's also.
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I believe once you change to flex-raid you can setup the drives however you would like. If you have 4 drives you can use raid 1 for two drive and leave the others drives as raid 0
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You can configure the drive however you like (raid 1 or 0) and it works stand-alone or daisy chained. It's a very flexible and reliable drive.
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I am pretty sure it would, as long as the OS itself supports the raid type completely. I formatted the drives using Mac OS' Disk Utility, but they were originally formatted as RAID 0, and my computer seemed happy with that configuration even if it wasn't what I wanted and was probably done with a different version of OSX. You should probably check that the older mac does support mirrored RAID devices before buying, just to be sure.