Drive Station Quattro - TurboUSB / eSata

[Joe_Thin]

   

My Office just got the 1TB version of the subject line above. I need to expand the storage to 4TB and have changed the 4 250GB HDDs for 4 1TB HDDs. Which brings me to the follwing questions:

 

I'm using the same steps for Windows XP and Windows Vista. I know that XP will not recognize the 4TB setting from an external drive so I'm moving onto my Vista machine.

 

1) Can I actually expand the storage capacity beyond 1TB?

2) Why does my machine crash whenever I configure the RAID setup? Every single time I get a blue screen. I have looked up on Device Manager there's no ! flags.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Joe

[PCPiranha]

1.) That isn't supported, but it might work.

2.) Make sure you're connecting via USB, not eSATA. the raid setup software will only work with USB, as eSATA does not have a control channel.

[tanjl]

   

I've installed four 2tb WD drives into my quattro and using the USB to conenct, i managed to raid it to raid 5.

 

Do not use the e-sata for resyncing of raid, it will never work.

 

I've tried it many ttimes before using USB to do it.

[Joe_Thin]

   

Yes I've been using USB the entire time.

 

I've been trying to get the RAID 5 and right after I select the RAID5 and starts reading I get the blue screen and restart.

 

I've been trying to get firmware updates but the model is not listed on the website: HD-QSTU2/R5

 

Thanks for your replies and help

[PCPiranha]

Can you post the messages that you are getting in the blue screen?  There isn't any firmware for this unit.

[Joe_Thin]

   

I just wrote 4 paragraphs of information and my message did not go through because my link was not "authenticated"...

 

Let's see if I can recreate everything again without a ban.

 

The blue screen lasts for only a couple of seconds. I have noticed a memory dump process at the bottom of the screen. I have also noticed that Drive 1 has a flashing red light while the rest of the drives have a green light. I am giving up on the discontinued 1TB model and returning it.

 

However, I received the 2TB model today and when I tried to change the RAID configuration (Yes with a USB cable) on my XP machine the computer restarted at the Detecting/Formating drives stage. Just a restart no blue screen. I changed the station into my Vista machine and I was able to change the configuration setting and I still have a red light for drive 1 while the rest of the drives are green. At the configuration screen the 4 drives are Orange (Yes the factory drives) and drive 1 has "Rebuilding" in (parenthesis). All drives with the same drive letter on a RAID 5 mode. I navigated to the File->Information Section and it says rebuilding at 13% finished.

 

Will the light change to green after it rebuilds? Will the station work fine?Can I just drop it from the window of my 8th floor office and follow it please.:robotmad:

 

Thanks.

 

 

[PCPiranha]

it should work fine after it rebuilds, and the light should change to green

[Joe_Thin]

   

Well... it did and it didn't. This is the 2TB Station

 

I was able to change the configuration but  it had some problems with the detecting/formatting process. It did not always recognize the drive after deteting and doing the transition into formatting. I had to force the detection by turning the Station off/on during this process (On my Vista Machine). And still I had to run "ntfsfix" in Linux to finish the formatting process.

 

Is this normal? Or am I missing a step in the process?

 

Thanks