does this drive work well in RAID 1?
178450
You probably mean RAID 0 because RAID 1 is mirroring. I had it configured as RAID 10, it worked for a while until it failed but not because it was part RAID configuration.
178451
Absolutely. there are always SOME weird motherboards and some NAS's that don't like certain HDD's, so it isn't guaranteed, but it's a real nice, solid, good working drive. Read some reviews on it. In RAID 0, by the way, you can make up for the 5400 RPM and make these things scream and still have the low heat, low power consumption.
178452
I have 5 of these drives in a Sans Digital RAID box configured as two 2TB RAID 1 drives with a hot standby replacement drive. I've been running almost two years with no problems. I chose the lower spin rate (5400RPM) to be more reliable. I use the RAID 1 drives for backup/archive of other computers.
74517
Although I am using two 1TB drives in RAID 1 mode, the manual says "2 x 2.5" SATA HDD, total capacity up to 6TB".
2235683
Using X-RAID is the only way to make that work. But you are limited to 1 volume, if you want more than 1 volume you would turn off X-RAID but you cant go back without reformatting your drives. X-RAID will manage your redundancy
923996
No. This card has no RAID functionality. You need to find a card that offers RAID 1, which is drive mirroring, to do what you're looking to do.
129662
here is article: http://www.lockergnome.com/hardware/2011/12/09/how-to-make-a-raid-1-das-for-under-125/
91780
Hi Charles, I have two of these drives, the first one I configured myself to RAID 1, which I use to store my most important files, due to the redundancy. The second drive I left as is, which is RAID 0, which I use as a working drive where I need speed. Once I finish my job and edit the files, I store them on the first drive. I have them daisy chained together and have not encountered any problems. Hope this helps! I love these drives, very fast, good build quality and quiet. Good quality for the money.
1678462
All of these drives are good. It depends on the usage. I use mine in a Drobo array for video editing. They are fast enough, but not super fast. The more data you have stored, the slower they run. Probably need to make sure future drives are "enterprise" models.
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.
1233658
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.
1944266
that depends on you mother board...raid x is raid x ....but sata3 is way faster then 1 or 2 ... then thers how meany drive you put in raid vs the max speed of you raid card what ever it is
2051837
I can get 30mb/s over gigabit with jumbo frames and two drives in raid 1. There's a lot of variability depending on if you're moving one large file or many small ones. I don't know if this is due to my drives or the nas.
1456907
Drives are included and although it comes pre-configured raid 0 it can be formatted raid 1
74522
The manual says yes, support up to 2tb. Here I have 2x 512 hdd raid 1 and works fine.
579275
It supports RAID 0 with excellent performance. That is my current configuration. Note that there is no fault tolerance with RAID 0 so you need to regularly backup your data.
800516
Can you run RAID that way? Id like to install 2 2TB drives, for large capacity RAID.
735279
I'm only using the one drive it came with right now. It might have software raid. You can ask the seller via their support link at deepdiscountservers.com.
2161494
If you are hooking this up to the Super RAID 2 board (3 slots) then check with the MSI website, there is a list of drives that work with their RAID boards.