I want to use 8 (maybe 12) drives in a RAID with EXTERNALLY accessible Hot-Swap caddies. Will this case support this?
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Yes it will, you can even put up to 20 hard drives with four 5 in 3 hotswap bays, thats if they're 3.5 drives if you're talking 2.5 drives you may get a total of 72 drives to fit. hopes this helps http://www.amazon.com/Icy-Dock-MB455SPF-B-Hot-Swap-Backplane/dp/B000KMAWHO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1363722054&sr=8-3&keywords=5+in+3+hotswap http://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Backplane-Removable-2-5-Inches-RC1600101A/dp/B004G8QERK/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1363722107&sr=1-5&keywords=6+in+1+2.5+hotswap
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I contacted startech & they said it will work with up to 6 drives per port with multiport external bays. SO a a total of 12 drivers per card will work. They said they have tested & has been verified. I have 2 mediasonic non raid bays i will try to see if it works when i get the card
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I suppose i's possible. There's lots of room inside the case. I suppose it's possible although I'm not familiar with what it would take to make that modification. As it is it doesn't need it. It's very fast and has no problem dissipating heat. There's certainly plenty of room inside the case. It was designed to accomodate Raid arrays so there are lots of empty drive bays. There are additional places to mount several more fans too.
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Yes. The redundancy level will vary by the number of drives but you can certainly start with 3 and add more later on.
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This is a cage for up to six drives. This cage allows you to change a drive quickly (hot swap).Raid is a function of either BIOS(hardware raid) or WINDOWS(software raid). I recommend thatyou GOOGLE "raid" and educate yourself on it.
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Yes, This drive will run fine in a RAID 0,1,5 setups. I have tested in all three formats and currently run 1 setup in a RAID 1 and a 2 setups in RAID 5's.
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Yes and it works well this way, every drive is seen individually as a SATA (or SAS)-attached device. I use this for a FreeNAS system with a 12-drive backplane and it works wonderfully.
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HelloDoes this product supports the storage spaces 6 tb product like this ( Mediasonic H8R2-SU3S2 PRORAID 8 Bay External ) What is the best RAID system to avoid disruption of Hardisek
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You can keep your drives as is. There is no hardware RAID so it will read four drives independently.
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Based on the Synology RAID calculator you should have 12TB of usable space and 6TB of parity (http://www.synology.com/en-us/support/RAID_calculator)Adding 3 x 3TB drives would give you 18TB of usable space and 6TB of parity
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No 6 3.5" drives won't fit.there are 4 3.5" hot swap bays and 2 internal 2.5" drive bays
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I'm not sure either. I've only used mine for 1 drive. I doubt it would work for 2 at once. You would probably need 2 adapters and some software that could reconstruct the data, which is shared between the 2 raid 0 drives.
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this case has 5 5.25 inch bays in it, meaning that it could support 5 optical drives if you really wanted it to. You could also have a drawer, a usb hub, a card reader, and an upgraded fan controller if you wanted it. I highly recommend buying it.
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if you mean that you are working with less than 8 drives, yes, you can add other drives, one at a time (the system will do a rebuild of the array when you effectively add the new drive). Beyond 8 drives, you can only add other drives with the expansion unit. That means the USB and esata interfaces cannot be used for drives that are meant to be part of a RAID array. External drives (through usb and esata) can only be shared on their own, as individual volumes. And yes, all raid options are supposed to work with any number of drives. I started my array with 6 and soon went to add a 7th drive.
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Yes. You can eventually fill up to a maximum of 8 drive bays but no more after filling all 8 bays. After that, if you want, you can buy another Synology NAS of equal or larger capacity than the DS1812+ and you can back-up your original eight bay DS1812+ to your new DS1812+ .This is common practice in IT, because even awesome multi-bay servers can FRY just like all other electronic devices.
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Yes it does I have 4 3tb drives in one and they work just fine, it will support up to 12tb
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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.