Do these drives have any security for downloadable content? (how likely am to end up with "extras" in an IT area if used for downloads? )
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No security. You'll need your security/antivirus system to be configured to scan/watch a mounted/external drive (or however its defined.) The ones I got have some software on it, but it's more of a privacy/encryption scheme than keeping you protected from downloaded nasties.
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I'm only using the one drive it came with right now. It might have software raid. You can ask the seller via their support link at deepdiscountservers.com.
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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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Does anyone have any recommendations for purchasing an external CD/DVD drive? Will any one do?
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Amazon have been sending me the WD20EARS-00MVWB0!If you do buy it, please buy it thru my Amazon Store, its the same price and I get a small kickback from the sale.http://astore.amazon.com/brisperpag-20/detail/B002ZCXK0IGreat drive btw, use this for my main data partition and for an external backup drive on many servers.
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I have one of these and there is no security software included. It is just a raw storage device.
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I've chosen Western Digital because of reliability. I've owned 4 WD drives: An 80GB, a 160GB, a 500GB, and this 1TB, and haven't had one of them fail on me. But as another user stated, WD sends just the drive itself. You'll have to download software, find screws, etc
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You should get the box, but if I were u I'd get the down load version, never lose your cd or cd key that way
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Yes. The populated version comes with WD Red drives. Should read that in the description.
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Good question. You could always buy the parts separately (an internal disk and an external enclosure). External drive enclosure listings:
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Actually it has the ability to create backup disc. I put mine on a large gb flash drive. As far as protection, I didn't find it. I have UVerse so I have free protection with them.
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Yes. You can encrypt the data on the drive. The Synology website has a step-by-step tutorial on the process: https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/tutorials/455
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No, the one I got at least was just a blank USB drive. But it is a good one. Truecrypt used to be a standard, but they stopped development. Bitlocker in Windows seems to work well.
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You need to format the drive before use. So if you have some files on it, you will lose that. Beware!!!!!
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Yes, It is very conservative when it comes for the disks. My diskstation rejected 2 hard drives of mine that I never suspected. One of those disks died one month later. Anyway the raid config is still the best choice to avoid surprises.
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Yes, treat it as a standard removable usb drive, don't run the "backup" software.
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Yes, downloads are available, but you can also buy a USB CD/DVD drive for under $25. Always good to have a CD/DVD drive anyway. Another alternative if you have a network is to have another computer "Share" their CD/DVD drive and use that.