On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 11:04:30 -0700 Galen Seitz <gal...@seitzassoc.com> dijo:
>On 04/03/17 10:40, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> I am looking for a 2-bay USB enclosure, at least USB 3.0, with >> internal software capable of Raid 0. I have been looking at the ICY >> DOCK MB662U3-2S: >I would be leery of any USB RAID setup unless I knew with absolute >certainty that the RAID format/metadata was well documented and >portable. In other words, you need to be very certain that it is >possible to remove the RAID disks from the enclosure and recover the >data. If the RAID format is proprietary, you would be in trouble if >the enclosure dies or the company goes belly up. I have been shopping all day for USB 3.0 enclosures, and the results are not encouraging. At this time my plan is to buy a 2-bay enclosure but use it for now with just the 6TB WD Red Pro drive currently in the Synology. I only want it to be 2-bay for future expansion. Once the 6TB drive is out of the Synology the enclosure will be empty. I will then add a new WD Red Pro 8TB drive to it. The Synology is a DS216j 2-bay NAS enclosure, so some day I will add a second drive to it, probably another 8TB Red Pro. And for both the USB and the Synology, once they have a second drive I will use just Raid 0. The USB is backed up to the Synology nightly with rsync to make it a mirror of the USB, hence I don't need a Raid that creates redundancy - no need for hot swapping a failed drive. My shopping problem is that there are not a lot of 2-bay USB enclosures with built in Raid on the market. And every one that I can find has numerous horrible reviews, almost all of which are due to mechanical failure, i.e., poor quality control by the manufacturer, not software problems with the Raid. I realize that there are numerous people here who administer big server setups and when I say "Raid" they immediately assume that I want hot swapping redundancy, but I don't see the need for that. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug