What RAID modes are available on the WD ShareSpace drive?
July 15th, 2009
All WD ShareSpace drives support Spanning, RAID-0 (Striping), RAID-1 (Mirroring), and RAID-5 (Redundancy with parity). Each RAID mode may or may not be available for usage based upon how many internal hard drives are installed in the enclosure.
Please Note: Based upon how the WD ShareSpace RAID is setup, the WD ShareSpace will show different available capacities:
- Qty of 2 – 1TB internal hard drives:
- Spanning – 2TB
- RAID-0 – 2TB
- RAID-1 – 1TB
- RAID-5 – Not Supported
- Qty of 3 – 1TB internal hard drives:
- Spanning – 3TB
- RAID-0 – 3TB
- RAID-1 – Not Supported
- RAID-5 – 2TB
- Qty of 4 – 1TB internal hard drives:
- Spanning – 4TB
- RAID-0 – 4TB
- RAID-1 – Not Supported
- RAID-5 – 3TB
For more support information about the available RAID modes on the WD ShareSpace, please see the chart below:
