is it possible to attach a second drive to this unit? Is there a way to add a second drive (maybe USB) to act as a fault tolerant device?
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No you cannot attach a USB drive directly to this NAS. But a better approach would be to attach the USB drive to your desktop and run automatic backups from your desktop.
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it only recognizes one external drive ,they both would work but you couldnt open both to transfer data between each other
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You can configure the drive to be either 4 TB or 8 TB. The device itself only contains two 4TB drives.
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No. I believe you can purchase an adapter for the optical drive location and place a second HDD in there. This will replace your current optical drive of course, so you would have to decide if that's something you can live without or you could purchase an external optical drive.
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All of the drives are combined into one drive. There are no options to create two logical disk drives.
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You can not actually add additional hard drive, but you could replace the original with new one has more capacity.I would suggest to use external hard drive.
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Hi, Yes there is another bay for a 2nd Hard drive. There is also another for a 2nd CD/DVD player. Connectors from power supply for 2nd devices already in place. IDE Cable needed for additional devices, the hard drive requires cable with a 90 degree connector on one end. Hope this helps. :-)
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Greetings,Great question!Yes, absolutely. The two drive types can be installed and utilized in conjunction with one another.Best regards,MITXPC
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Go to their website. They have setups to build your own... this one is already setup. And yes, I believe they are replaceable. But why buy this model to just replace with bigger drives when they already sell 1, bigger drives and 2, setups to build your own...
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I've only used it as a standalone hard drive copy device, but I believe you can use it as an external hard drive unit too. I'm using Mac OSX
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You can do that but the drive rebuilding process takes a long time and this unit isn't hot-swappalbe so you would have to shut down and open the case. You can attach external drives and back up files to them.
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I added the ssd. Really improved the unit. Not sure about another optical drive
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You have to open the back and look at how the first drive is mounted. Make sure there are connection wires available and connect it the same way the other one is set up. If you have any difficulty, check with Gateway or a Computer geek shop in your area. EC
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Yes, I have used it that way several times. Just plug it in and the tablet will recognize it as another drive.
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No. You have to replace the drive with a tray that holds the second hard drive.
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You should ALWAYS have redundancy, especially with these kinds of drives. Yeah, they are cheap, but your data isn't. Buy two and use one as a backup. I learned the hard way myself.
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I'm afraid so. One drive will work; I'm using two. Even for a "newbie" it's pretty easy to set up, and they're very good about answering questions.