I own two USB 3.0 external 3TB drives. If I connect both to the USB 3.0 connections, can these drives be included in the RAID configuration? Also, can
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No, unless you crack them open and pull out the drives from the enclosures to install into the diskstation.
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when the drives are hooked to it, boot the system there is a key combination to enter the configuration screen, it will show your drives and you tell it what type of RAID you want to setup and when you want to do the data transfer, it is backwards compatible with SATA III, some of the new drives come with a jumper to make them work with older computers also, at a slower transfer rate
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Not really. You would have to format the existing drives when you added the new ones. What you're describing *might* be possible if you used the JBOD (just a bunch of disks) configuration, but not for any RAID. For all their RAID configs, you have to choose the number and size of disks at creation, and you can't change it without reformatting.
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It should work as RAID set, if you do not need to see multiple drives, but if you want USB3.0 adapter support port multiplier protocol, look for "U3eSATA" in AMAZON
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I have 3 of these Sabrent drive enclosures and I populated two with 500GBs and one with 1TB. All three worked as I expected. BTW, I only tested them on USB 2.0 connections. I'm still waiting for my "GMYLE® ExpressCard 34mm to USB 3.0 Adapter (Dual Port)" to see if the USB 3.0 connection is any better. I currently do not have a machine with a "native" USB 3.0 interface. I have not tested these units using an SSD.
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This device will neither allow or disallow that. This converter will merely allow you to mount 2 drives in one bay. If your motherboard has RAID capabilities then yes, you can configure 2 drives as one.
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I believe that only an eSata drive can be added to expand storage, in a RAID 0 configuration. What the limit is on that doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but I'd assume at least 1TB. I haven't found any size limit for USB drives either, but since you can only copy to/from or backup/restore using USB drives that makes a huge drive of limited value anyway. I suspect the only way we'll know is to remove the internal drive, attach it to a PC, and see what filesystem the Mediashare uses. Sorry, wish I had a more helpful answer.
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Either is possible, it has two drives in it and can be used as Raid 1 or you can use them as Raid 0. From recollection it comes preconfigured to be used as Raid 0 - taking more advantage of the the thunderbolt interface.
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You have to add at least one drive in order for the unit to work. My unit is running on 4 drives of 2TB each for a total of 8TB. I run in raid 5 which allows all drives to be mirrors of each other. If one drive fails for any reason you can simply replace it with another drive and all of your data will automatically copy from one to the other. As a minimum you need three drives to run raid 5 but like I said, I'm running 4 drives. When you start up the unit it walks you through everything you want to do with it. It is very user friendly. Hope this helps.
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I set mine up with one other one in a RAID 1 configuration and it works great and has for several years now. Not sure if it works for one RAID configuration it will work for any RAID configuration, but probably.
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It depends on the type of raid setup you use. There is a hybrid setup that makes use of all the drives and maximizes the space available. This way you can have different size drives. I accepted this as the default. I can't verify how it works though as all my drives are the same size. It's a bit slower than I would have liked also, but hey, it does the job.
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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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Hi, that depends on the configuration of your drives, if it raid 0,1 or 5, then it should see as a single drive, else, it wont be possible to see all the drives
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Hi Charles, I have two of these drives, the first one I configured myself to RAID 1, which I use to store my most important files, due to the redundancy. The second drive I left as is, which is RAID 0, which I use as a working drive where I need speed. Once I finish my job and edit the files, I store them on the first drive. I have them daisy chained together and have not encountered any problems. Hope this helps! I love these drives, very fast, good build quality and quiet. Good quality for the money.
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yes can put any size drive in the bays that you'd like, but if you want them to be part of a raid, they have to be all of a matching gb size. I have 3 2tb drives set up as a raid, and a couple of randomly size drives as backups that aren't included in the raid. overall it's a very versatile piece of equipment.
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Yes, as I have three sets of SSD in raid 0 with three OS. The only thing is that the cables are not that long.
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Hi, I suggest buying a caddy to put your drives in, I assume SATA, and then you can transfer them without issue to the RAID. You can usually buy USB Caddy or enclosures for less than $20. Hope this helps.BR,Dave