Raid support: It have Raid support ??
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No, and you don't really need it because Windows Home Server can maintain copies of all files on disparate drives so you can easily recover from single drive failures.
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No. Raid Mode Support Raid 0 (Spanning) JBOD Raid 0 (Stripping) Raid 1 (Mirroring) Raid 3 (Stripped set with dedicated parity) Raid 5 (Striped set with distributed parity) Raid 10 (Mirroring + Striping) Raid 50 http://www.mediasonicstore.com/servlet/the-24/Mediasonic-ProRaid-8-Bay/Detail
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Onboard RAID (0, 1, 1+0) is a software supported RAID. If you want performance RAID I'd recommend a dedicated RAID card. Also ESXI does not support onboard software 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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http://www.synology.com/en-global/support/RAID_calculatorYour best bet to go look here and see what kind of configs work.
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Jim, this card supports raid 0 and 1 and JOB, but I will concede no raid 1, as I could never get it to work, so in the end you are right.
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Yes you can perform an online raid expansion. I'm sure you already know the standard warning but here goes anyway. Raid is not a backup. Always backup your data. Make sure your backed-up data is up to date before you perform the raid expansion!
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sorry for my first reply, hit the wrong key. it has included the hard disks, you will find it also without it so you can chose the hd size you want in it. i do not know if can be used in raid 1 or 5, sorry.
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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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i have run dual raid 0 i have raid 10 and raid 1 i have not tryed dual raid 1 but it shold work fine
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Yes. I installed two of these into servers running windows 2012 server 64-bit running raid 5. However, this unit doesn't have built-in raid. You would still need a raid card or have a motherboard that has raid built-in to achieve raid 5 however.
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Yeah, most likely. I've used a variety of drives since I've owned it, some listed as "supported" and others not. All have worked fine. The only thing I'd recommend doing is checking the Synology Raid Calc to make sure you get it set up with the specific RAID you want to maximize space: https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/RAID_calculator
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that's not true, note I had to update the firmware to get that option of Non RAID. But i cant remember if it was the firmware vision it came with or not. But the firmware was available on the product site
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I am about to install a 6TB drive so I will let you know if I am successful but according to intel, it should be fine. The support of your HDD depends on the RAID card. This is a RAID expander and is only meant to extend an existing RAID controllers capacity of HDDs. This does not create a RAID array.UPDATE: I have installed my 6TB WD Red HDD and have no issues. Simply plugged it in, turned on my server, and it showed up in my OS (Linux Mint 17.1) without any issues. No configuration needed. Just plug and play.
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The one I bought has hardware raid. I have 4 * 1tb drives installed configured as RAID 5.
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Yes, I'm using it for the same reason (add extra sata ports). You can disable the raid.
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You can add drives as you need them. The drives can be of mixed sizes too for the hybrid raid configuation; however, I recommend you try to keep to one drive size so select your initial drives with the thought of expanding later.