Installed a RAID for EHD
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Cool, hope it works well for you. Sounds nice having the lights above each drive.
Better change your title to Raid-1 before Smith chastises you
Better change your title to Raid-1 before Smith chastises you
Wt'ta RAID ?
[Actually I can talk for myself without proxy. - your topic was misleading because of "2 TB" wording and no RAID level.
This one is neutral - no size, no RAID id. ]
[Actually I can talk for myself without proxy.
- your topic was misleading because of "2 TB" wording and no RAID level.This one is neutral - no size, no RAID id. ]
I would test it first - disconnect and reconnect one disk and watch how DVR will works with it - will try transfer and play from it during RAID rebuilding process.
Who knows how it could behave.
Who knows how it could behave.
Too Late
Title says it all.
Cool, hope it works well for you. Sounds nice having the lights above each drive.
Better change your title to Raid-1 before Smith chastises you
Title says it all.
I did, and it doesn't. Online troubleshooting now.
No errors reported, unless one wants to count a brief red flash in the second, drive 1 slot. It appeared to be working just fine. So I powered it up with just drive 0 in. Looks great. Then with just drive 1. Blank drive. Swapped drives, repeated. Nothing seen. Now I've got one drive drive with dozens of hours of HD on it. Drive 1 is suddenly blinking red a few times, then mostly green. Not a set pattern. If it's drive rebuilding, I hope I don't lose the stuff I've put on it. Dumb of me not to thoroughly test it first. But it appeared to be working fine. No troubleshooting in the "manual" nor is there much of a description of the blinking lights - still trying to decipher that part. I "think" (so close to "assume") that it means it is rebuilding the RAID onto drive 1. Never saw a red light, even momentarily, on drive 0.
BTW, it came with DriveClone 3 Personal OTB software. Which will never grace my computer.
I did not want to take the chance of mine trying to rebuild. When I finished taking turns pulling each drive to make sure they were copies of each other, and that the 722k would not notice, I transferred the shows to the internal hdd, then reformatted the My Book with the WD raid manager. I then reconnected it to the 722k, the it format, then moved my shows back over.
Well, I'll let it run overnight and check it again tomorrow night. I'd hate to have to send it back.
I did try to access the unit while it's doing this "rebuild" (if that's what it's doing). It responded kinda slow and made more noise than usual, but appears to be fine, no missing programs.
I did try to access the unit while it's doing this "rebuild" (if that's what it's doing). It responded kinda slow and made more noise than usual, but appears to be fine, no missing programs.
DON'T BUY THIS ONE!
She's dead. Appeared to rebuild just fine, but testing one drive at a time is erratic. Sometimes it says words to the effect "you have connected an unsupported device to the USB port." Sometimes works just fine. Obviously, I can't depend upon this RAID in case of failure.
I'll report back on how well the vendor handles the return.
She's dead. Appeared to rebuild just fine, but testing one drive at a time is erratic. Sometimes it says words to the effect "you have connected an unsupported device to the USB port." Sometimes works just fine. Obviously, I can't depend upon this RAID in case of failure.
I'll report back on how well the vendor handles the return.
Yet others report success with RAID boxes. Not sure the DVR could "see" the difference, but that is beyond my skill level. Is there some inherent reason they would not be reliable?
Those come with installed drives though, don't they? I already have 2 1TB HDDs, WD Blacks. Not gonna send them back, they seem to be fine.
Not applicable here.
That's irrelevant point in a thread about HW RAID implementation.
That's irrelevant point in a thread about HW RAID implementation.
Called the company. They suggest that in "3" - mirrored - it may or may not see a single installed drive correctly, as it "expects" two. That would explain why sometimes it appears to work, and sometimes it gives an unrecognized/unsupported error msg. They suggest I put it in JBOD mode, which will then see two identical volumes. Or just the one, if only one drive is installed.
Does this sound reasonable to you? Smith P especially, your thoughts on this?
Does this sound reasonable to you? Smith P especially, your thoughts on this?
If it were irrelevant as you insist, DISH probably wouldn't have been so consistent in recommending against it.
The Technical Chats get this question pretty much each time out and the answer has remained the same. If it is RAID implementation dependent, then offering a blanket assurance as you have is irresponsible.
You don't want JBOD. Thats just lumping them together to make one big disk. Its like RAID 0 without the RAID.
I do think that you may have to manually set the DIP swtiches when you pull a drive from the enclosure. I think that is what the tech meant. You want your RAID 1 settings until a drive fails. If you pull the drive out, you switch it to JBOD mode to access the single drive. You put it back to RAID 1 when you put the drive back.
