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Question: Greetings friends, I can put the pro box as a simple storage unit and not as RAID?
Document: This unit is working great on my OS X 10.6.8 system connected via USB 2.0. I have it filled with 8 3TB drives configured as 2 independent RAID 5 arrays. Though I've only had it a few days so fat I do like it a lot.I really feel like the product description/information on both Amazon and the manufacturer's web sites was incomplete and not always correct. The retail box it comes in has some great information on supported RAID configurations.
I read the documentation thoroughly and still felt a bit uncertain about setting this up but decided to dig right in. In fairness, I would not want to have to write the doc for setting this beast up.I had a collection of identical Seagate 3TB hard drives that I'd pulled out of other devices or bought and had been saving for this RAID. First pass through, the unit would power up for 10 seconds and then shut down.
Got a replacement and all was well. Perhaps it'll help someone some day that a bad drive bricked the thing but it couldn't tell me it was a bad drive.Read through posts on their forum. Saw a post about a &#34;write fix&#34; for RAID 50 which is what I am setting up. The post was dated 2012. I figured it likely would not apply to a unit I just bought. I was wrong. Transfer speeds were abysmal.
I have both the non-Raid and Raid versions of this. The USB 3.0 with a Mac has a few minor issues when drives sleep. They tech support is great though, and I use it with my Mac Pro 1,1 (First Gen Intel one) with a Sonnos USB 3.0 card.
(note this is not the only device I have connected continuously, although I tried that for a bit to see if maybe that was causing some kind comm issue)Its to the point i cannot use it as back and media share because you cannot get anything to copy over before it disconnects from the system.Systems i tried this on:Mac OSX 10.7.5Windows 7 Pro and HOME 64bitLinux(Fedora, Ubuntu)Needless to say it is not worth the price and definitely not worth your time
I use Carbon Copy Cloner to run scheduled clones every evening of 3 out of 4 internal volumes to the Mediasonic. This is running perfectly and the unit itself is also reasonably quiet (my Drobo is wayyyyyy louder).I have not had the random self-eject problems that others have experienced, but then again I am using eSata and these seem to stem from USB3.0 connections.My only complaints:1.
Like I say, not a minutes headache since it's been running 24/7 for almost three months now.The one really useful feature on this enclosure is that it has a loss of power detector via the USB connection that safely shuts the unit off. By simply pulling the USB cable out, it will shutdown and restart similar to the host with No Issues.The Not so Good: During the setup the enclosure driver kept dropping out on me for no good reason.
I have had this Raid Enclosure for some time now in order to give a fair assessment for it. This is what I experienced.First the Good: I haven't had a minutes trouble with it since setup! I have this enclosure sitting on a CyberPower 1500PFCLCD battery backup with plenty of overhead in case of brown-out. I have it configured with Raid10 with all slots populated with 3TB Hitachi disks. This yields two volumes of 5.45TB of usable storage space.
Very easy to setup. I would recommend to anyone that understands RAID environments. The manual requires the Hubble Telescope to read the small print.
The installation/configuration instructions contain even more great information on supported RAID configurations that would have been beneficial the read before purchasing this enclosure. Without that info I was a bit hesitant to buy this enclosure, but now that I have that info I would not hesitate to buy another of these enclosures.
Answer: Hi, yes indeed, as well as being a raid 0, 1, 5 unit this product is also a very competent JBOD (just a bunch of discs) that interfaces with your via a decent USB 3.0 port. It very (too) easily switches between those storage configurations; just don't make the mistake of switching before you've backed up your data!!