Does this XPS mini-tower have an onboard RAID controller? I would like to set this up as a RAID 10 - so minimum of 4 drives are required
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The maximum amount of drives that I was able to hook up without any other cards is 3... An SSD for the OS, 2 HDD for storage. I'm not too familiar with RAID setups, but I think you may need a separate RAID controller.
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The card itself has no RAID capabilities; the HDDs are reported to BIOS and OS as independent drives. That means you can only create software RAID arrays, via the OS.
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The drives must be the same size and yes you can put only 4 drives in the NAS. In order to configure as a RAID 5 though you will need at least three drives. I used 5 drives and configured 4 of them as RAID5 leaving the 5th drive as a "hot spare".
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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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Yes, that is typically how a RAID controller like this is used. You shouldn't have a problem.
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With a raid card you wont have to rely on getting the same motherboard chipset that the raid was created on which can be difficult a few years after purchase. You can just pop this in a new motherboard and it would just work without worries of having to reconfigure onboard raid and risk corrupting or overwriting the data already on the drives, which is way to easy to do.
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The RAID controller is on the outside, on the back of unit. There's a switch to choose either "fast" or "safe."
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See the second page of this link and note: Embedded Processor - http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/raid-expander-res2sv240-brief.html
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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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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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Yes, It is very conservative when it comes for the disks. My diskstation rejected 2 hard drives of mine that I never suspected. One of those disks died one month later. Anyway the raid config is still the best choice to avoid surprises.
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The one I bought has hardware raid. I have 4 * 1tb drives installed configured as RAID 5.
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You have to add at least one drive in order for the unit to work. My unit is running on 4 drives of 2TB each for a total of 8TB. I run in raid 5 which allows all drives to be mirrors of each other. If one drive fails for any reason you can simply replace it with another drive and all of your data will automatically copy from one to the other. As a minimum you need three drives to run raid 5 but like I said, I'm running 4 drives. When you start up the unit it walks you through everything you want to do with it. It is very user friendly. Hope this helps.
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Absolutely. For the how-to setup go to pcworld/pcmag/cnet and read the test reviews. Several magazines talked about how to use this device in a non-RAID configuration.
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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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That's exactly what I'm doing and why I bought this; however I am certainly no hardware guru. It takes a while for it to show upon explorer (4-5 secs), windows needs to read it, etc. I would go to the internet and find a forum that has a topic for hardware, giving them the model, intent, etc. Let me know what you find out. I am interested. My final goal it to set up a RAID, still need one more hard drive.
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Mine came with 2 drives with RAID 1. Suggest you to review the spec at http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/4178-705315.pdf