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So i guess i could explain what i want to do with this. The idea was to put launchbox, roms, and emulators on one drive. In this instance i bought two 4 Terabyte drives. One was going to used as a primary and the other would be used for backup. The idea was to setup a box i can move from PC to PC easily enough when it comes time operating system upgrades. I also have the other 2 bays for expansion later. I am already pushing 600 gigs on my computer now. I expect to use close to 2tb by the time i am done.

Well it's good i emailed them. Hopefully they can get the issue resolved. I really don't want to build another computer just for launch box. Thanks for the information, i am a bit more hopeful now.

I have the HF2-SU3S2 i attempted to look for drivers, any kind of software. I saw nothing on the website. I did make the power management adjustments. I disabled legacy support in bios. Actually i missed one.. Nope, i also double checked the website, i see no software for download.

So i just wanted to throw this out there. I am having issues with this enclosure. It randomly disconnects and reconnects in usb 2.0 and 3.0. I just spent the day updating my BIOS, drivers for my chipset, USB 3.0 drivers, and various other fixes on the web with the issue persisting. It is giving me migration issues. I ordered a esata card to see if that works. At this point i may just build a 2nd PC. Looking online i can't find a good 4 bay enclosure without a number of bad reviews. Not trying to sound like a i complaining. I just want other people to know if they look at this enclosure they may have issues.

I was thinking about a NAS but i think that would be a bit overkill for what launch box does. I just wanted to make sure i can have some redundancy, and if i had to reinstall windows or move the device to another PC it will still read everything without a problem.

I figured. However i think you sold me on your solution. To implement everything at once would be expensive. If i do it your way i can use the software for backup, and still be able to expand everything as i need to. At the end of this i still really don't know how much storage i need in total. Thanks for your input i really appreciate it.

Well in raid 5 if you loose 2 drives at the same time, yup. It's all gone. Thanks for the recommendation, i may look into that instead.

Thanks very much! I want to specifically do raid 5 in case a drive fails. Once i get everything setup i don't really want to do it over.

I am wanting to buy an external drive enclosure, with four 3 terabyte drives in a raid 5 configuration. I am trying to get some second opinions. I want to make sure doing this configuration would not cause any issues in terms or running games with launch box, or issues with windows in general. It would suck to spend about 500$ and have something not work. Also recommendations for enclosures or drives would be welcome.