WD ShareSpace: Supported RAID Modes

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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: