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swwack91
Nov 23, 2007, 11:55 AM
Let's say I have a 4-Bay External Hard Drive Enclosure and have all 4 drives in it. The enclosure is connected via Firewire to my Mac.

Will the drives come up as 4 external drives or 1 large one that'll have to be partitioned?


TheStu
Nov 23, 2007, 01:27 PM
Let's say I have a 4-Bay External Hard Drive Enclosure and have all 4 drives in it. The enclosure is connected via Firewire to my Mac.

Will the drives come up as 4 external drives or 1 large one that'll have to be partitioned?

I think it will come up as 4 drives initially. Some of those multi-drive enclosures support RAID, so you could then configure that to get 1 large drive.