will this raid card work with 5tb hard drives?
639288
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.
639289
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.
1951198
That depends if your controller supports it, if so then yes. I am running raid 10 on mine.
800516
Can you run RAID that way? Id like to install 2 2TB drives, for large capacity RAID.
104429
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
1944264
Probably not. If you motherboard is equipped with SATA3, RAID0 on this card will not be any faster (probably slower) than onboard RAID0.
928100
I used 4TB Drives from WDC and Seagate, they work fine. I don't know if 5TB drive would work or not.
2275325
Most likely not. 3GBPS was the highest speed SATA tested at the time this product review was composed. The electrical interface is identical; the connectors in this cage are not junk. Only a big bunch of mediocre cables could slow you down here.If you do not have the RAID controller yet, also consider IOfusion's PCIe bus flash, removing the SATA bottleneck.
74517
Although I am using two 1TB drives in RAID 1 mode, the manual says "2 x 2.5" SATA HDD, total capacity up to 6TB".
1498307
It depends on your O/S. I used mine with Ubuntu and 4x4TB and it worked fine.
561562
Absolutely. However I would recommend populating with WD Red hard drives which are preferred for NAS RAID use and using the 4TB size hard drives since you are limited to only 4 bays. In a pinch however, you can use any four SATA hard drives of any capacity and /or manufacture and it will work just fine.
347223
Raid 5 is much more complex computation-wise than RAID 0/1 and requires a more complex on-board processor to handle, thus it's rare to see on cards of this price range and if one at this price point offered it I would be wary of using it. Raid 5 can be implemented "poorly" and lose parity thus negating it's purpose. I would also recommend looking at other drive array solutions as RAID 5 has fallen out of favor in recent years. RAID 6, RAID 10 and things like ZFS have a lot more to offer these days. This card is great if you just need to add some disks or replace a faulty on-board SATA controller (why I bought it)
1731448
Yes, you can just use it as a regular SATA controller, you don't have to set up RAID if you don't want to. That's how I use it.
923995
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.
1848757
Not sure about 4TB. Works great with 3TB hard drives in a RAID 10 with my Mac Pro.
579275
It supports RAID 0 with excellent performance. That is my current configuration. Note that there is no fault tolerance with RAID 0 so you need to regularly backup your data.
327453
Not 100% sure but it worked for my raid 5. I would think it works the same.
74519
Yes this will support dual 2.5, 2TB drives as a RAID0 stripeset. I am currently using it with two Samsung ST2000LM003, 9.5mm drives.