the product has included the hard disk ??can be used in RAID 1 or 5
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sorry for my first reply, hit the wrong key. it has included the hard disks, you will find it also without it so you can chose the hd size you want in it. i do not know if can be used in raid 1 or 5, sorry.
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None...you install the hard drives you want, If you go to their website you can find out a lot of answers. www.bufflaotech.com
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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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Dear Han, I received an answer request via Amazon.com The product is fine. The issue is that the two discs come togehter with something called "array", which means that they are arranged with a RAID so when something is written into the hard drive, it's written in both discs at the same time (mirror array). This is particularly useful for backups so if a hard drive fails (and they do!) you have a second drive in good shape to retrieve the information and then to replace the broken hard drive. You may call this as a redundant backup. I had the same problem than you because the brochure is not so clear about the array and you can think that you're buying some capacity and then it turns out that the capacity is there but mirrored... The good thing is that you can buy more hard drives in amazon.com and expand the capacity :) I hope this helps.
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Hi, yes indeed, as well as being a raid 0, 1, 5 unit this product is also a very competent JBOD (just a bunch of discs) that interfaces with your via a decent USB 3.0 port. It very (too) easily switches between those storage configurations; just don't make the mistake of switching before you've backed up your data!!
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I backup critical files to an external 3TB HDD plugged into the unit and have a remote DS212 at my in-laws house with 3TB RAID 1. The remaining 7TB is data I could recreate, but it would be more painful. Just going with RAID 5 and no other backups is a poor decision, especially if you are a business.
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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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If you bought the one with pre-installed hard drives, out of the box it will be RAID-1 (mirrored) with 4TB of available storage. You can undo the formatting and redo it as two separate 4TB drives for a total of 8TB of storage, but then you lose all of the protection the mirror provides.
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Hi Steve: I Can't verify, already installed in a customer's server. FW revision # looks familiar. I wouldn't bank on getting another drive with the same firmware on a different order - sometimes they are different on the same order. I use the RAID Controller (Adaptec) to update firmware on disks to get them the same.
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It comes with 3.5in SATA hard drives installed in each bay. Also, the packaging comes with a guide explaining how to switch the hardware's RAID controller from 0 to 1 and vice versa.
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i think proraid supports raid functionality, this is the one i have and i'm using raid 5the other one does not contain raid functionality and is just a straigt forward enclosure that will give you one volume per HD installed at least.
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No, it's a hardware RAID enclosure. The RAID mode is set via a pair of jumpers inside the unit and any file system is supported. The unit appears as a single disk to the OS once configured.
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Yes. That's exactly what I bought it for - extra ports. There is a message that pops up on booting about RAID but extra ports work as intended.
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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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Yes you can. I am currently running RAID5 with 4 3TB WD Red hard drives, 1 bay is open.
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Yes it will work with RAID 1, as both drives have identical data and each can be read separately.
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That is the theory of a RAID 5. I had a 4TB drive fail after a month on duty. Western Digital immediately sent me a new one, I plugged it in and it took about four days to re-establish the full RAID. My 16TB with 12 TB usable space on RAID 5 was loaded with 4TB of records. So, if you want to upgrade your system one drive at a time, better be patient.