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Hey there you guys.
Just got some new gear.
Got two WD Black 1TB drives:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284
&
One Icy Dock enclosure:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817198032
Now, I want to set these up in RAID 1, so the disks are mirrored.
However, I must be doing something wrong.
When under disk management, with the enclosure set to RAID 1 shouldn't I only be seeing about 1TB of usable storage? That's what I thought, however I'm seeing 1.8 TB or so of storage. I would expect to see this if I was setting it up as a JBOD or RAID 0 configuration, not RAID 1.
Also, I decided to test it out. I threw about 200MB's of data on the new partition (1.8 TB) and then removed both the drives from the enclosure and hooked them up via my sata to usb cable. The drives were recognized however only under disk management, and they were seen as unallocated space. If I'm not mistaken this would look like it was set up using a RAID 0 configuration, since both the drives need to be seen/ read for it to work?
One last thing. It only took about 25 minutes for it to supposedly format 1.8 TB's and I didn't have quick format enabled.
Any ideas would be great.
Thanks
Bob
PS- In the manual it said to have pins 1 & 3 down while pin 2 up for RAID 1 to be enabled. However there was a "correction" sheet that came with the manual saying to use RAID 1 you have to have pin 1 down and pins 2 and 3 up. I set it up using the later configuration, though maybe the "correction" sheet is wrong.
Just got some new gear.
Got two WD Black 1TB drives:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284
&
One Icy Dock enclosure:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817198032
Now, I want to set these up in RAID 1, so the disks are mirrored.
However, I must be doing something wrong.
When under disk management, with the enclosure set to RAID 1 shouldn't I only be seeing about 1TB of usable storage? That's what I thought, however I'm seeing 1.8 TB or so of storage. I would expect to see this if I was setting it up as a JBOD or RAID 0 configuration, not RAID 1.
Also, I decided to test it out. I threw about 200MB's of data on the new partition (1.8 TB) and then removed both the drives from the enclosure and hooked them up via my sata to usb cable. The drives were recognized however only under disk management, and they were seen as unallocated space. If I'm not mistaken this would look like it was set up using a RAID 0 configuration, since both the drives need to be seen/ read for it to work?
One last thing. It only took about 25 minutes for it to supposedly format 1.8 TB's and I didn't have quick format enabled.
Any ideas would be great.
Thanks
Bob
PS- In the manual it said to have pins 1 & 3 down while pin 2 up for RAID 1 to be enabled. However there was a "correction" sheet that came with the manual saying to use RAID 1 you have to have pin 1 down and pins 2 and 3 up. I set it up using the later configuration, though maybe the "correction" sheet is wrong.