I mailed Vantec twice, but their speedy support was now something of the past and I received no replies whatsoever. I even went as far as wiping the disks with the Seagate tools and starting again, no joy. After going through all the jumper options I could still only get two single drives. I then shut the housing down and opened it up and checked the jumpers and found that I had in fact not set them correctly, so I set them and pressed the little reset switch as per the documentation, but was still presented with two drives in Windows. I suspected I had not set the jumpers correctly but proceeded to create partitions and format the disks anyway to test it out. When I first attached the housing to my machine and started up disk management in Windows I was presented with 2 drives. Everything was easy to install and the manual was reasonably clear and I set the jumpers to RAID 1.
I initially flipped through the instructions and then installed the drives in the housing. So I recently purchased the SR version and proceeded to setup 2 x 250GB SATA disks in RAID 1 (mirroring). I also asked if the drive would rebuild without being attached to a machine and they said it would.
The disk light would go off in the event of a disk failing and the rebuild time was about 1GB/m. I sent Vantec USA a few technical questions specifically around RAID rebuild times and what happens in the event of a disk failing. Fortunately not too long after the S2 they released a new version the SR ( NST-400MX-SR) which supported RAID 0 and RAID 1.
I then looked at some of the entry level NAS devices, but they were more than I needed and cost quite a bit more. A dual drive housing, “how great will that not be for backups?” Then I discovered that it did not have RAID 1 support. When the Vantec NexStar MX ( NST-400MX-S2) first came out I was quite excited.
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