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    Looking for fastest USB3 external raid 5 enclosure

    This may be an obvious question, but does this unit come with drives pre- installed? Also, how do you configure the raid 5? Software or webGUI? Also, if I am copying large audio files would the 7200 be better?
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    Looking for fastest USB3 external raid 5 enclosure

    On my rampage II extreme I had to disable my 6Gb/s controller and stick with 3Gb/s. (It's a known problem with raid). Therefore I;m not sure that the esata port in the back will work. The one you suggested, does it have it's own raid controller chip built in? I tried the Dlink one months...
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    Looking for fastest USB3 external raid 5 enclosure

    Anyone have any thoughts?
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    Looking for fastest USB3 external raid 5 enclosure

    I have run out of room on my win 7 box (Revo 2 for boot drive, 2x Vertex 2;s in a raid 0, and 2x WD 10K drives in a Raid 0). I need to look into getting an external USB3 raid 5 enclosure but I want something that has it's own built in controller (I know that can really be a bottleneck.) I am...
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    Need help with Link Aggregation / NIC Teaming

    I have a micro atx system that I run a 8TB RAId 5 array in as my media server. The MOBO has 1 PCI-E x1 slot and 2 PCI for expansion. (The other 16x PCI-E slot is used for my controller card). I installed two trednet PCI gigabit PCI NICS and set up the link aggregation within my netgear...
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    Looking for reasonably priced but extremely fast NAS device

    I ended up buying a miniatx system for less than $500 that will run windows 7 and utilize a pci-e x1 gigabit NIC which should give me the same throughput as my other two systems I have another questin you all may be able to answer; Most of the time we are streaing movies in real time form the...
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    Looking for reasonably priced but extremely fast NAS device

    A few months ago I decided to purchase a D-Link NAS to back up music and videos from our Avid/ProTools system. I configured the Dlink as a Raid 5 for redundancy and the speed was HORRIBLE!!!! We were seeing 10-30 MB/s read and write speed to and from the NAS. A call to D-Link provided me with...
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