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Forgot to add JBOD, (Just a Bunch Of Disks). No data security, speed is on par with single drive. loss of one drive screws your data. Chances of failure using two drives would be double that of a single drive. Good for saving non critical data that is backed up on a regular basis. (you DO...

If you are torn between RAID 0 and RAID 1, the choice really depends on what you are trying to acheive. RAID 0 spreads data across multiple drives and is *not* fault tolerent. If one drive goes down, the whole array goes down. Performance is increased due to the fact that data can be...

After reverse engineering the "special" power converter that came with my new SATA tray, it seems like the four wires that come out of the back of the SATA power connector and would normally connect to a plug at the back of the SATA tray are: 1) +12v 2) pin 11 of the SATA power connector 3)...

I had tried (unsucessfully) to get clean hotswapping for over a year on this system. I tried many utilities that allowed hot swap functionality, and tried manually removing the drive from device manager. Nothing seened to work. I would get errors in the system log stating that drive removal...

If you have an older motherboard with an Intel chipset like mine (ICH5R) and want to have hotswap capability without tripping errors in event viewer, try this: My setup uses a Intel D875PBX motherboard and two Thermaltake trayless internal SATA trays. Use a power supply that has SATA power...

Pin 11 of the SATA power connector is officially "reserved", but some manufacturers use it as a drive activity line, while others use it for staggered drive spin-up communication. I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA (300GB) and some Seagate ST3500 series drives and they all support drive...