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| 1409823 | 2015-10-13 12:59:00 | I'm wanting to buys something like this www.pbtech.co.nz . I currently have two hard drives . One is a 2tb and the other is 3tb. Currently have lots of family and friend photos for over a decade or 2. I want to be able to access the videos and pictures by powering all the hard drive at once so I thought of getting a 4 bay enclosure. I see this drive have raid compatibility and my understanding of raid is that it duplicates the video or picture across multiple drives? I think the setting called "clear raid" disables the raid function? Is there a possibly to disable raid or is there anything I should look at?I'm mainly just gonna be copying data to and from out of the enclosure using usb 3.0? |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 1409824 | 2015-10-13 20:39:00 | More info please, a bit too vauge I'm assuming those 2 HD's have all you data on them . Or are they just 2 empty HD's Are those 2 drive in a PC at the moment, or are they USB drives, loose unmounted HD's or something else Are you after additional HD storage ? How do you plan to backup all that data, regardless, it needs to to backed up a 2nd external drive A raid enclosure is NOT the same as a USB hard drive encloure Be VERY carefull here, put existing drives into a raid enclosure & the raid setup may want to wipe them |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1409825 | 2015-10-13 21:30:00 | Just something you may want to also consider: I want to be able to access the videos and pictures by powering all the hard drive at once so I thought of getting a 4 bay enclosure. That particular unit would have to be connected to a Computer directly to have access. If you wanted to have access over your LAN with other computers / Devices, then it would have to be setup with shared folders and be reliant on that one computer Being turned on. Its not a NAS with a Ethernet Port. Of course it may be able to be shared via connecting directly to a Router with the USB cable, if the Router is capable.:2cents: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1409826 | 2015-10-13 22:33:00 | I have two 3.5 inch hard drive full of match which at the moment is plug into a docking station so I can access the data. I just want a enclosure where I can access all the drive at once and able to transfer to and from the hard drive onto a pc using usb 3. Hope that makes sense? |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 1409827 | 2015-10-14 00:52:00 | Something like this?, buy 2 of them www.pbtech.co.nz Also, dont rely on an external hard drive as the only copy of the data. Important data needs to be stored on 2 separate devices: ie backup to another HD |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1409828 | 2015-10-14 02:52:00 | I'm hoping to get a 4 bay enclosure so I don't run out of usb ports | Ninjabear (2948) | ||
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