if you connect two or more drives does it look like one big drive or do you log into each drive seperately to view your content?
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Each drive is listed separately. It's actually a pretty cool little device...
1723527
Sorry I cannot help, I no longer use this device. The system we were experimenting with is no longer needed in my business.
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don't waste your time or money it doesn't recognize anything especially if you have a high-quality router it does not matter this is a very very inferior device there's the MyBook live and that is the best choice if you want to stream your media over your network I bought a 4Tb it worked the first time every time and all the time
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Actually, JBOD is what you are trying to do (it means "just a bunch of disks"). I have two of these and and each contain two HDDs configured as ordinary HDDs (no RAID).
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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, do the setup for RAID1 which is mirror drive.When you install the disk, you will see what capacity you had.With RAID1, you get the capcity of one harddrive.you can go to Synology website and get the details.
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I do not know--this was so unreliable I have stopped using it. It did not matter what drives I used--none would stay connected. Also, realize you can only use one at a time.
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But how would you add more than one external drive? Would you just use a USB hub?
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You will see 4 drives provided they are blank. Sometimes the unit has trouble seeing drives that are formatted and have data on it. Once you have connectted, you can use Windows Disk storage to manage the drives. In Windows 8, you can also use Storage Spaces to turn into a single resilient.drive.
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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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Yeah....like the other responders, speed is a bit of an issue, but I found when it's backing up AND my local dropbox folder is syncing, everything slows as CPUs are eaten up. So as long as you're only syncing one drive at a time, you should be fine. I like the convenience of not having to be hooked into the machine. It works great connected to my gateway, and I have it secured quite easily.
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Yes I'm running two hard drives. If you want more it would have to be an external.
477120
That will depend on your OS and drive manufacturer. I'm using Win 7 and a Seagate drive so I had to partition my 3TB into 2 logical drives. Don't quite understand why but that's what Seagate said I had to do.
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OH no problem... just connect one of the other provided cords to the 2nd port on WD drive 1 to either port on the 2nd drive. It automatically shows up on your desktop as a second WD icon. Works great.
912011
Two 4TB drives. You can configure it to mirror those two 4TB, split it so parts if each file could end up on both drives (makes it very fast, but vunerable to corruption if either one fails), or separately to use them as two unique 4 TB drives for a total of 8TB.
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That's the beauty of the Drobo...you can start with 3 drives then add more later without a problem. The Drobo will resize itself for you. Even better, if you want to replace a drive with a bigger one, you can simply take out the small drive and put in a bigger drive without reformatting. Drobo takes care of everything!
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You can fill as few as 2 slots (using one drive as a redundant drive) and leave the rest open for later use. I initially loaded 6 slots with drives and allowed the NAS to test all 6 drives. I them removed 2 drives and keep them as backups. I now have 4 3TB drives installed and running just fine configured as one volume.
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I think it probably has something to so with the power consumption of the devices that you're connecting. If, for instance your connecting 5-7 hard drives chances are they're not going to all be recognized as they draw a great deal of power. While Ive not done it myself, Im thinking if you connected 7 USB thumb drives, that they would be recognized.
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I've been trying this with no success. A single drive through a 7-port usb hub worked fine. However, upon connecting three drives, one TB drive became corrupted and had to be reformatted! The other two TB drives were connected and able to be shared. Upon both hookups my wired connection continued to lose and regain internet; followed by not being able to access the router admin from firefox. At this point I'm ready to just connect a single tb drive and give up on multiple drives. If I have any later success I'll post again. Good luck.