Can I use it just like I had two individual HDDs? I do NOT want any RAID/JBOD function...
1761769
Yes. I currently use mine with two separate hard drives. One 1.5tb and one 2tb and they both mount as separate drives.
1761770
Actually, JBOD is what you are trying to do (it means "just a bunch of disks"). I have two of these and and each contain two HDDs configured as ordinary HDDs (no RAID).
1731448
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.
1176114
It does allow JBOD but I wouldn't recommend it. You should really use RAID 5 to take advantage of this unit.
1731447
Yes, you can use with a single drive or multiple drives. They do not have to be in a RAID configuration. That is optional.
800516
Can you run RAID that way? Id like to install 2 2TB drives, for large capacity RAID.
2275024
Considering its a JBOD enclosure, you kinda don't. JBOD means just a bunch of drives, which states it archetecture. You might be able to do it using software RAID, but afaik there's no setting to auto raid your drives on this enclosure.
2156759
Using 5 drives without redundancy is just asking for problems... I would venture to say that one of those drives is going to fail within a year. I have a 2x 2GB RAID1 system for the past 4 years, and had to re-sync them once. In the last 15 years I've had ~5 drives crash or get corrupted. Never again will I leave valuable data in only one drive.
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As far as I know from the documentation, if you place the drives in with the dip switches set to JBOD then you should be fine. I'm not sure how well that functions since I was mainly interested in the HW RAID.
188306
yes, I have two of these boxes, & I set them to either raid 0 or leave it at the default which is JBOD. Currently, I buy a lot of Seagate Barracuda 4 terabyte drives, and swap them in and out of these boxes per my various jobs. I work off of the one box that I have at 16 terabytes raid 0, & I back up to the JBOD single drives. it all works fine, & I configure everything using Disk Utility.
1434286
Greetings,Great question!Yes, absolutely. The two drive types can be installed and utilized in conjunction with one another.Best regards,MITXPC
506902
Yes. It will allow a single drive. When you add the second one, hopefully identical in size, you can choose to add it as more capacity or as a RAID. If a RAID, then the DS will create a second copy of the first and significantly increased the system reliability.
1933542
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.
1254727
Yes you can! Simply leave the unit in JBOD mode and install any drives to access them. The drives will not be reformatted or overwritten. Please let us know if you have further questions. Oyen Digital Support
2147309
When I first got it (about 9 months ago), I started with 1 hard drive and it worked fine. I added another drive in single disk mode and it's also working fine. Although I didn't set it up as RAID, I remember I had a choice to turn it into RAID. However, I don't remember if formatting both drives is required for RAID; it's not required for two drives in single disk mode. This was a few updates ago, so it might have changed, but I think you can still start off with one drive, add another drive in the future, and set them up as RAID.
2041003
Yes, that is typically how a RAID controller like this is used. You shouldn't have a problem.
1567771
I'm not sure. Perhaps you can just attach both drives and use windows to copy the files.
2232203
Short answer, No, due to port expansion eSATA. Longer answer, you wouldn't want to if you could, with double (or worse) data traveling on a single wire, performance would be poor, and it would burn up from constant multi-drive activity (which is the likely reason that the RAID version of this was discontinued)