Can I mount both the hard drives as separate drives? Not in any raid configuration? I'm using Mac OS X here.
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I'm using it as a mirrored array on a Linux box, but you should be able to configure it as JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks). If I remember correctly, it defaulted to JBOD when I first used it. According to the technical specs it's Mac OS X compatible. http://www.startech.com/HDD/Enclosures/Dual-Bay-SATA-External-Hard-Drive-Enclosure~SAT3520U3SR
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Yes you can! I am also using Mac OS X. Just make sure that the dip switch is set properly
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I use PC not MAC. You could use this hard drive, however, WD support for MAC is not the best. I would suggest Seagate, Hitachi, or Samsung as they provide better support. You may also need to download additional drivers no matter which Hard drive you choose. I also suggest you check our ZDNET's recent article on the Best Hard Drives.
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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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My recommendation would be to get the Windows version and leave it as a single NTFS partition. Just load the included utility on your Mac so that it will read/write to an NTFS disc and use the single large partition for both platforms. Makes it easy to share files cross-platform that way.
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I am pretty sure it would, as long as the OS itself supports the raid type completely. I formatted the drives using Mac OS' Disk Utility, but they were originally formatted as RAID 0, and my computer seemed happy with that configuration even if it wasn't what I wanted and was probably done with a different version of OSX. You should probably check that the older mac does support mirrored RAID devices before buying, just to be sure.
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Yes it comes with both drives, and yes it supports RAID 0 or 1. I use RAID 1 with my iMac.
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No. Once you do the initial setup, if you add a second drive you can not set it up to run in Raid 1 without having to format the drive.
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That's the way it's designed to work. Otherwise, there's no point to having a RAID array and you might as well sync two hard drives. I own this enclosure and like it very much but I've not experienced a hard drive failure yet so I have no personal experience. Apparently, Mr. Morrissey does. I do not think the drives necessarily have to be identical, but the RAID array will end up being the size of the smaller hard drive.I would also note that the StarTech enclosure does not support RAID 5 (only 0 and 1) so Showman's RAID 5 could not have been in this StarTech enclosure.
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Yes you can. I am currently running RAID5 with 4 3TB WD Red hard drives, 1 bay is open.
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If it's any consolation, I am using 4 of these with a Mac Mini connected to 4x (5 Bay) esata drive bay enclosures to create a huge RAID using 20 Drives. WORKS GREAT AS MY HIGH SPEED TIME MACHINE BACKUP
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To add to that answer, yes, which is how I set mine up. I have 4 3TB Drives from an older MacPro and just popped them in and was good to go!
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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.
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You can configure it as JBOD (just a bunch of drives) and consolidate your various drives. If you configure as RAID, you'll need to replace bad drives with exactly the same size and possibly type of drive
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It's a single disk hard drive. You could format it to have two partitions, but that won't give you physical redundancy. If you need the redundancy of a raid system you're going to have to move up to one.
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depend on yore RAID, can be done using JBOD if you use RAID0 to RAID5 every drive/s you add will have to be its own RAID
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I do not know much about macs but if the mac has usb, this should pop up as an external usb hard drive (provided there is a hard drive in the device). If you have both Hard drives plugged in the device then you should be able to use your mac to drag and drop files from one hard drive to the other.
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I'm really only using them (I have several) on a Mac but I think they are interchangeable between platforms. It is a great drive. It is my "go to" whenever I need an external drive.