Does it support RAID 1? im thinking about putting in an HP pavilion to install server 2012 with 2 Seagate 2TB drives in RAID1 would it work?
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The card doesn't implement RAID, so if the device you connect to it supports RAID 1 it should work.
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I've got two 2TB ESATA phantom drives connected to it. Supports Raid 0, and 1 , 6gbs if the drives are capable of 6gbs (SATA3). Mine are only 3gbs but for backing up it gets the job done. I can also choose to boot from these drives on my Dell XPS 8500. Hope this helps.
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StarTech PEXESAT32 2 Port SATA 6 Gbps PCI Express eSATA Controller Card states that it supports RAID0 and RAID1
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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
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Yeah, I fell for it, too. I thought I was getting 2x 4TB drives -- and it is TB, btw...not gb (which is 1000x less). I found it's only 2x 2TB drives. I believe you can change the Raid to 0, though...which will stripe data across both of them and you'll get nearly 4TB of storage. The only downside to this is if one fails, you lose the data on both. Make it more fun then...and add a 2nd one to the network and have them back each other up =)
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No. Once you do the initial setup, if you add a second drive you can not set it up to run in Raid 1 without having to format the drive.
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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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Four of their LinkStation Models (WVL, QVL, WXL, & WSXL) do support RAID Arrays. You do however always need multiple drives to accomplish RAID. RAID 1 requires 2 drives.
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i have run dual raid 0 i have raid 10 and raid 1 i have not tryed dual raid 1 but it shold work fine
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I use Raid 1, but I think they have raid 0 as well.By default they use an automatic mode called Synology Hybrid Raid that handles raid levels for you, that what I have and I have configured and so far I have seen no problems.Written in Panama City, Panama, on May 26 2013.
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I purchased a Ml310e last year with the four port LFF hot swap cage. I don't know what controller is on that array, so I'll answer in the context I know. Unless HP has changed it's policy or you purchase media from HP, you will need to purchase drive trays so you can install drives in a slot. The unit does not come with them. At the time I purchased the server, I didn't know this and wound up spending about three times as much for media, HP drives are commercial grade and expensive, as I intended for a lab server. At that time, OEM trays could not be purchased and HP didn't offer them without a drive installed. Recently, I've found a tray that the vendor says fits the 310 LFF slot for about $40 per tray. I have not yet tried one but will in the next few months as I upgrade the server. Interestingly, when I purchased the server, OEM trays were available for the SFF slots but the server with those was not necessary and didn't fit my budget. Because of that issue, I would not have purchased another 310 because of the media cost, but will reconsider if the trays work. It is a well designed piece of hardware, but having to use HP media increase the cost of how I wanted to configure the storage from $300 to $1500 so I had to acquire less capacity for greater cost and didn't get to use a SSD for my system's hypervisor drive. Regards
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yes, I have two of these boxes, & I I either raid 0 or leave it at the default which is JBOD.right now, I buy a lot of Seagate Barracuda 4 terabyte drives, and put them in and out of these boxes per my various jobs. I work off of the one box that I have at 16 terabytes raid 0, & I back up to the JBOD single drives. it all works fine, & I configure everything using Disk Utility.
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Honestly, I only have 2 2TB drives installed and never had any problems since I first bought it! I don't see why it should not support 2 6TB drives! Hope this helps!
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The answer is maybe depending on the type of disk array you have. If you have the four port SFF one, the answer is probably no. Last I checked, disk trays were not available for drives. When I bought the server, you could only get them by buying HP drives. It has been several months and I have not checked again, but I'd check before I bought another one and if they are not available, I would not buy another one. The media was much too expensive. For example, I wanted to configure mine with a 128gb SSD and a mirrored set of 2t hard drives. I had all of these devices in my inventory which was about a $300 investment. The HP drives that I would have had to use was about $1,500. I wound up with two 1t HP drives which is adequate for my needs but still more expensive than how I wanted to configure. I've provided feedback to HP on several occasions about how uncompetitive their media is. Regards
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works fine with my windows 8.1 64pro, the raid and the direct connection (sansung evo, raid 2 western digital 2TB )(motherboard gigabyte ud4p, intel 7 930)
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I used it with WHS 2011 (now using 2012 Server) successfully by using software driven JBOD, specifically Stablebit. The hard drives on the controller are available just like, and in addition to, those connected to the motherboard SATA connections. I have also used this in a hardware driven RAID 5 array as a separate backup to Highpoint 2720 controller using software JBOD. Too complicated, but it did work.
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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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Yes just make sure whatever raid utility you choose can utilize 4tb partitions otherwise you'll have to have 16 2tb partitions. Also make sure not to use anything such as Western Digital Green drives that have auto off or time out features as it will break the array every time one of the drives powers down. I use Seagate Barracuda drives in mine.
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i think proraid supports raid functionality, this is the one i have and i'm using raid 5the other one does not contain raid functionality and is just a straigt forward enclosure that will give you one volume per HD installed at least.