“Hi, Im not techy so my question might be obnoxiously stupid. Does this external hard drive have two drives or just one. I was told the "raid" feature copies to one HD and duplicates the info to the other. Is this true and does this EHD have this capabity?”
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Yes there are two 8TB drives in this model and the unit can operate in one of two RAID modes. One of those is a a mirrored mode where one drive is a copy of the other.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It has two 8 tb hard drives set up in raid 0, but mine registers as 14.5 tb.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Hi Stan, Yes, this external hard drive does have two drives in the enclosure. You can format it using the WD drive utilities to use raid, which on the 16 GB unit, gives you 8GB of space (my choice). Or, you could not use raid and get the full 16 GB of storage space. The WD drive utilities also allow you to choose NTFS if you have a Windows computer or exFAT if you have a Mac computer. I recommend this EHD.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes it has two drives and one can be set to mirror the other automatically via RAID.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes, it has 2 drives in the enclosure. The way you portion the RAID is what determines if it behaves as 1 large 16 GB drive or 2 or mire drives where the data is divided or duplicated between the different drives.
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