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The My Cloud EX2 Ultra can be setup in RAID 0,1; JBOD & spanning. Therefore the device can be used as a 4TB backup, or 2ea 2TB drives which mirror the backup for redundancy, JBOD (just a bunch of drives) or spanning, where the 2 drives are used as one large drive. The simple answer is yes but it has different meanings of "occupied" based upon how you set the device to perform.

Not sure what you mean by "occupied." Yes there is a separate drive in each bay. You can't use both drives separately, however. So if you buy it with 8TB of storage that means each bay contains a 4TB drive but technically you can only save up to 4TB of data. One drive you are saving to but the other drive is used as an automatic backup of the first drive. While you can't take advantage of the full 8TB of storage space, you are making a duplicate of your first drive in case one drive crashes. That's the purpose of this product.

“Are both bays occupied?”

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The My Cloud EX2 Ultra can be setup in RAID 0,1; JBOD & spanning. Therefore the device can be used as a 4TB backup, or 2ea 2TB drives which mirror the backup for redundancy, JBOD (just a bunch of drives) or spanning, where the 2 drives are used as one large drive. The simple answer is yes but it has different meanings of "occupied" based upon how you set the device to perform.
Answered by NRMC 8 years ago
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Yes with 2 - 4TB drives
Answered by Gene 9 years ago
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Not sure what you mean by "occupied." Yes there is a separate drive in each bay. You can't use both drives separately, however. So if you buy it with 8TB of storage that means each bay contains a 4TB drive but technically you can only save up to 4TB of data. One drive you are saving to but the other drive is used as an automatic backup of the first drive. While you can't take advantage of the full 8TB of storage space, you are making a duplicate of your first drive in case one drive crashes. That's the purpose of this product.
Answered by celloSteel 9 years ago
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