how many SC/DVD can be inserted?
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One, as far as I know. It has a tray that pops out to receive your CD or DVD.
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One. And why would you even want to buy in bulk? This is an older drive. Not even new, its refurbished. The really only purpose I found to buy this drive is to keep an old system running for another year or so before completely replacing it. You can get more by just increasing the order number.
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DS415 is a 4 bay. I didnt need 4 disks so I went with DS713. This is one major difference, there may be others.
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No. The days of internal expansion are over. Suggest you take a look at the 2013 model, you can 4 Drives.
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The standard configuration is: 2 optical drives (DVD/BD/CD), 3x3.5" HDD drives (I believe your two 1TB qualify) and 2x2.5" SSD drives.As an option you can add a second 3-drive 3.5" cage (sold separately) or install 2.5" SSD drives in the 3.5" drive trays instead of the 3.5" HDDs.I hope this helps.
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I used three adjustable inserts...for a total of 4 shelves for regular size DVD cases. If you have blu-Ray you could fit more. The unit came with a few more shelves I didn't need them though for the size cases we have. Hope that helps.
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you can remove the dvd drive and put a hdd caddy. I did it without problem.
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Not sure, I placed 2 2TB drives for a 4TB total and the unit performs fine. Very happy with the unit. Perhaps check the website to see what the approved drives it will accept.
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No add them as you need them. You do need at least 2 or 3 (I don't remember which) for their flavor of RAID to work for data protection. Drives will be reformatted when inserted!
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I added five drives and I had no problem. I did make sure that the drives I added were the same size as the existing drives in the NAS
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There are four drive bays on the front of the case for installing removable media drives or accessory panels. I have a DVD drive in one bay, and a USB/card reader panel in another. I haven't used the other two bays.
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Currently I have 2 Sata and 1 SS drive in it, still room for more. One thing though pickup a few 90 deg connectors as the case doesn't close properly if you use the regular connections for your Sata drives.
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These DVD+R DL's have 2 layers on one side of the actual media and yes these media has a capacity limit of 8.5G's of storage but you can write anything as long as it is not over 8.5g's... :D :)
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You can fill as few as 2 slots (using one drive as a redundant drive) and leave the rest open for later use. I initially loaded 6 slots with drives and allowed the NAS to test all 6 drives. I them removed 2 drives and keep them as backups. I now have 4 3TB drives installed and running just fine configured as one volume.
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The disc drive is mounted in a box below the DVD drive, accessible with the side cover removed (which breaks the warranty seal, which voids the warranty). There is room for another drive in the box. If adding another drive, you will need another SATA cable. There is a spare power cable for a SATA drive. There are 6 SATA cable sockets on the motherboard, but I don't know if it will actually support 6 drives. It definitely will support one more. Interestingly, there is an IDE controller on the motherboard, but no IDE connectors. I have found that there seems to be a problem with ASUS' implementation of the SATA system. When two drives are connected directly, copying 350 Gb of data from one to the other takes HOURS. Microsoft's Process Explorer reports disc reads and writes averaging only 7 Mb per second, which translates to just 50 Gb per hour. It took about 13 hours to copy the 350 Gb. It is faster to copy to a USB 2.0 connected drive. The same target drive, connected via USB instead of as SATA to the motherboard, copied 64 Gb in 38 minutes. Process Explorer reported read and write rates of 27 MB per second, almost four times faster than when using the drive as a SATA drive. The manual is available for download at the manufacturer's website: service.asus.com.
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There is a groove for the smaller dvd's. If it is placed correctly in the machine and closed properly it is possible to duplicate them. Sometimes the rpms will 'float' it and you may get an error message.
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I am sorry but I have the 1 to 5 and it works very well, is extremely well made and it copies incredibly fast. I don't know for a fact but would guess that regardless of 1 to 1, 1 to 3, or 1 to 5, except for the size of the case/enclosure and maybe a larger power supply for more CD/DVD drives that they are identical in parts and quality. When I purchased mine I had a question and contacted the manufacturer, I can't remember if it was through the Amazon. com contact or if I contacted them at their website at produplicator.com . I do remember that they got back to me rather quickly and were extremely helpful. So the best I can say is if you contact them and the parts and equipment are all the same regardless of the number of drives, you'll be getting a pretty darn good product as far as I'm concerned. Have a great day. Hope this helps.