In raid mode 1 can drive one be partitioned, say 300gb for music and the balance for computer backup then that drive be mirrored to drive two?
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You can simply setup multiple shares via the web console. Each share can be public or private. Users can have either read only or full access in private mode.
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I agree with David, you can set it to Raid 0 for full storage space use. I prefer using Raid 1 for protection even though you drop the usable space in half. I like having my data replicated in case of failure.
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a Raid 5 will accomplish the same thing, while not requiring as many drives. The drives work together to increase speed, while they're also fault tolerent so 1 drive can crash without loss of information. If that's suitable, that would be the best option. You need at least 3 drives and the space will be 2/3 of the total capacity.
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If you are set on Raid 1, it will limit you to 4 TB because the other drive is duplicating #1. If you go into your WD My Cloud you can change from Raid 1 and obtain full use of the aggregate 8 TB if that is what you want.
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If you set up as a raid mirror you can hot swap the drives as long as one of the 2TB drives is working to copy your data from. Raid must be mirror not stripe.
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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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What you're describing isn't RAID, which by definition uses more than one disk. You're talking about disk mirroring, and even that makes little sense with a single physical drive. The whole point of both methods is to maintain data access when an entire physical drive fails.That said, you could set up a meaningful disk-mirroring configuration using this device and 2 of the drives within it. You would access one of the drives, and your mirroring would automatically write identical data to both drives in near real time, which is one level of RAID.
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I just wanted to add that RAID 1 means 2 3TB drives will show up as 3TB (not 6TB) as it is a "mirrored" solution (and what I would recommend). So the MAX capacity in that set up is 4TB.
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no, can do one drive at any time. what a dual drive gives you is the ability to copy a complete drive image one to another - but if you're copying data from one drive to your computer or vs vsa then you don't need to to put 2 drives in the Duet. Also note when inserting the 3.5mm drives, they don't sit in the Duet as firmly as the 5.5mm drives, I use something to make the 3.5mm fit more securely into the Duet.
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Hi to the best of my knowledge an experience on a Windows platform it shows as 2 separate drives. On the Mac os it shows as 1 drive.
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You can configure the drive however you like (raid 1 or 0) and it works stand-alone or daisy chained. It's a very flexible and reliable drive.
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2 - 2TB drives. It is RAID1 (mirrored) so you get 2TB usable. If you add a third or forth drives then it converts to RAID5 and cannot be downgraded after the conversion.
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Short answer, yes.-If you require data redundancy, use RAID1 (mirror), and you'll get 4TB total (the disks are duplicates); -If you require faster data access, and your data ISN'T important, use RAID0 (striping), you'll have all 8TB available. Warning: When you use RAID0/striping, a failure in EITHER drive results in the loss of ALL your data. Beware.Advanced: Some systems with four+ disk drives use a RAID10 (or RAID 1+0), which is a stripe of mirrors. This gives you both redundancy (RAID1) and speed (RAID0), and the system can withstand the failure of any TWO drives. Here's more info: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/raid-levels-tutorial/ Short answer, yes.-If you require data redundancy, use RAID1 (mirror), and you'll get 4TB total (the disks are duplicates); -If you require faster data access, and your data ISN'T important, use RAID0 (striping), you'll have all 8TB available. Warning: When you use RAID0/striping, a failure in EITHER drive results in the loss of ALL your data. Beware.Advanced: Some systems with four+ disk drives use a RAID10 (or RAID 1+0), which is a stripe of mirrors. This gives you both redundancy (RAID1) and speed (RAID0), and the system can withstand the failure... » Read More Short answer, yes.-If you require data redundancy, use RAID1 (mirror), and you'll get 4TB total (the disks are duplicates); -If you require faster data access, and your data ISN'T important, use RAID0 (striping), you'll have all 8TB available. Warning: When you use RAID0/striping, a failure in EITHER drive results in the loss of ALL your data. Beware.Advanced: Some systems with four+ disk drives use a RAID10 (or RAID 1+0), which is a stripe of mirrors. This gives you both redundancy (RAID1) and speed (RAID0), and the system can withstand the failure of any TWO drives. Here's more info: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/raid-levels-tutorial/ « Show Less
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RAID info should be stored in the drives but since it is R1. I'd place ONE drive in an try to discover it and then rebuild. Remember R1 is mirror so if it doesn't work you will still have your info in the other one.
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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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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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Yes-set up the NAS as raid drives. Mirroring is automatic. If a drive goes bad, you replace it & it will be rebuilt automatically. Note-drives are not independent. They are part of an array.