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RN104 eSATA port
I'm having some trouble working out how to set up an eSATA enclosure so it works with the RN104. I currently have the 104 with 1 4TB drive installed, and that works beautifully. My Lian-Li EX-50 is at...
Ok, just done a couple of quick tests. 104 running 6.1.4 with a single 500Gb Seagate drive in X-RAID as JBOD. Extra drive was a 1Tb WD Green drive.
The docking station I have been using has a model number of WLX-876C. A quick Google search got me to this: http://www.cccme.org.cn/products/detail-3016632.aspx
I originally had placed two drives in the dock with the expectation that they would both appear as external drives to allow me to copy off data. Instead they appeared as an EDA500XXX enclosure and the 104 asked me to remove the existing partitions. I decided not to 8)
Having just cleaned off the 1Tb drive I decided to try a couple of configurations.
First configuration: Flex-RAID - Drive appeared with existing partitions. I removed the partitions and created a JBOD volume. Created share, wrote stuff to it. No issues. Existing 500Gb drive still in JBOD.
Second configuration: X-RAID - Drive appeared with partition created by Flex-RAID. Removed the partition and waited to see what happened. After 15 minutes the drive was still doing nothing, leading me to believe that X-RAID had issues configuring it. Web interface became unresponsive. I powered off the 104 and disconnected the dock.
So, Flex-RAID seems to be happy with the dock, but I didn't try doing parity from the 104 to the dock, but I would have to assume that should work. X-RAID, however, seems to have an issue. Not a problem for me as I was just going to create a couple of JBODs and a couple of RAID1 groups, so the JBODs can live on the dock when I get there.
I don't know what chipset this dock uses, and I'm not going to pull it apart to find out either, but it will give me a couple of extra drive slots, which will come in handy.
The docking station I have been using has a model number of WLX-876C. A quick Google search got me to this: http://www.cccme.org.cn/products/detail-3016632.aspx
I originally had placed two drives in the dock with the expectation that they would both appear as external drives to allow me to copy off data. Instead they appeared as an EDA500XXX enclosure and the 104 asked me to remove the existing partitions. I decided not to 8)
Having just cleaned off the 1Tb drive I decided to try a couple of configurations.
First configuration: Flex-RAID - Drive appeared with existing partitions. I removed the partitions and created a JBOD volume. Created share, wrote stuff to it. No issues. Existing 500Gb drive still in JBOD.
Second configuration: X-RAID - Drive appeared with partition created by Flex-RAID. Removed the partition and waited to see what happened. After 15 minutes the drive was still doing nothing, leading me to believe that X-RAID had issues configuring it. Web interface became unresponsive. I powered off the 104 and disconnected the dock.
So, Flex-RAID seems to be happy with the dock, but I didn't try doing parity from the 104 to the dock, but I would have to assume that should work. X-RAID, however, seems to have an issue. Not a problem for me as I was just going to create a couple of JBODs and a couple of RAID1 groups, so the JBODs can live on the dock when I get there.
I don't know what chipset this dock uses, and I'm not going to pull it apart to find out either, but it will give me a couple of extra drive slots, which will come in handy.
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