In both cases I wasn't able to get them start rebuilding to a new drive till I hooked them up (USB) to a Windows laptop running the jMicron software that can be found on Mediasonics forums (make sure you don't allow Windows to initialize the drive since it won't recognize the Linux file system) Overall Review: Both times a drive has failed in one of these they've simply disappeared from the Linux server, which I suppose is one way to know a drive has failed. If any of these linux machines were desktop machines I'd try installing the jmicron software under Wine, but these are headless servers so all I want is to be able to see the status, and maybe trigger a rebuild (see below). I don't need or even want a gimmicky skinned front end, I just want to see the status of the box/drives, just give me a command line program to read the status. I'm not sure who is more to blame for this, jMicron or Mediasonic, but it's a pathetic state of affairs.
Absolutely no Linux support for monitoring the box status. They are all now connected via esata to Linux servers, and rock solid with 4x2TB in RAID5 mode.Ĭons: Software. One was connected to a Linux server via USB3 and dropped occasionally but it was a USB3 drivers issue not an issue with the box. Pros: I've been running three of these for over three years without any problems. Support 3.5" SATA I / II / III hard disk drive up to 16TB per drive, and up to 4 x 16TBSupport hard drive transfer rate up to SATA IIHardware Raid controller built-in on board Transfer rate up to 5.0 Gbps via USB 3.0 Transfer rate up to 3.0 Gbps via eSATA Power Sync: Power off in synchronization with PC One button for RAID control Forced Convection ProcessSmart Fan function:Thermal-Sensor built-inAuto & Manual mode3 level of speedRaid Mode Support:Raid 0 (Spanning) JBODRaid 0 (Stripping)Raid 1 (Mirroring)Raid 3 (Stripped set with dedicated parity)Raid 5 (Striped set with distributed parity)Raid 10 (Mirroring + Striping)Īdditional Information Date First Available
Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1 32 / 64 bit (with GPT enabled, supports total capacity more than 2TB)
Windows XP / VISTA 32 / 64 bit / Windows 7 / Windows 8, 8.1 (with MBR enabled, supports total capacity up to 2TB) Single Mode (JBOD), and RAID 0 / 1 / 3 / 5 / 10 Learn more about the Mediasonic HFR2-SU3S2 Best Seller Ranking
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