This is what's generally referred to as a DAS, direct attach storage, and the price isn't actually all that bad. The one I've had my eye on from QNAP is only a four drive rack mount, and it's $500. If they had a competitively priced shallow 1U rack mount option with four drive bays... I'd be all over that.
I have a lot of large language models, loras, and merges that I don't want to get rid of. This is perfect for me, I can easily fill up 18tb drives and I have an internal solution, but I was looking for an external hot swappable solution that uses USBC exactly what you reviewed!
Windows has a built in drivepool which supports raid 1,5,6,10. You can use different size disks and it optimizes it and you get all the speed advantages and redundancy. Give it a try, you will be surprised how good it is. Some of the disk recovery software can also read damaged windows pools, so you can recover a damaged array, that none of the dedicated das drives support. Note windows raid stores the info in the array so you can plug in any machine
I assume you mean storage spaces? I had the same idea too. You can create something RAID 1 alike. The big advantage is: you can plug it into any windows PC and that RAID1 (mirror) is recognized right away... Kind of a neat box to allow terrabytes and terrabytes to move between compputers (oh, and you also could use it as a cold storage box: hook it up to a small windows PC with a 10G nic to allow to transfer files. Switch on to make your cold storage backup and switch off... Need to restore: hook it up to the machine where you want to restore to et voila.... restore at 10Gbps)
@@RealLordy yes correct it's storage spaces. I run raid 5 on different size disks. Windows maximizes the space and i have redundancy. It's my backblaze disk, so I also have 50tb offsite storage for around $75 per year, and local storage with redundancy. I tried Todo file recovery and it can read the Microsoft drives individually, so i am not sure how it stores the data, but it looks like I can recover some data locally if the array fails. I tried the terramaster raid 5. It was a bit faster but if it goes bad nothing can read ot
If you use Windows, you can actually use Stablebits Drivepool to create a pool of disks of misc. sizes how you see fit. Then all you do is remove the drive letters in Disk Management, and you just have a single drive letter enabled by the Drivepool software
Your videos just appeared in my feed and I love your channel now you give good comparisons for all thing and test them One thing I can't find is that no SATA SSD comparisons which one to buy for best price and performance ❤
i use a Sandisk 8bay jbod. it was $300 about 13 years ago sata3. Odd how the industry managed to raise or maintain same price on such existing tech, including conn licenses.
Great if you want to have access to loads of files at USB 3.x speed without the complications of a network. Perhaps you're using a laptop, but still need access to the files of different drives. Well if those drives are MyBooks or MyPassports you're either going to need a separate power brick for each HDD, or you're going to need a powered USB 3.x hub or run out of USB 3.x ports. Easier in some respects to have the JBOD enclosure for a single power supply, single USB 3.x port, easier access to your files with USB 3.x speed. For me, I'd use it with my laptop to expand its access to the nearly 70 TBs of offline capacity that I currently have. So instead of needing to hunt for the right MyBook or MyPassport drive, I'd have immediate access to everything from a single enclosure. While also protecting the backups on my offline storage.
Actually instead of replacing the USB-C board, maybe relocate it and put a SBC with USB-C inside the case and machine out some slots on the back for extra ports
hi i want to buy a pc to become a youtuber and i dont know what cpu to choose an r5 3600 or an i3 12100f.I want one of this two because the rest ones are to expensive in my country and the i3 12100f is about 20 bucks more than the r5 3600 evan on the second market.
Love this enclosure for a NAS, but the NAS version of it is overpriced and performs terribly. Given the space inside this chassis I wonder if it's possible to get a single-board computer to fit in there and connect to the drives? If you remove the USB-C board that's currently in there, does the PCB connector look like a PCI express connector I wonder? That would simplify such a mod greatly
I wouldn't use it at all. Why not just buy a bigger PC case that already has bays for HDDs? Or better yet, HDDs and SSDs? And it would be an entire case for less than the $300 for this thing. No thank you.
This is exactly what I need! This will give me 10gbit storage with linux raid capability without having to upgrade my home lan from 1gbit for a 10gb NAS. Take that into account when considering the price. It would cost me much more than the cost of this unit to upgrade my lan switches and cabling.
I need to see if I can get a USB-C hat for my Rpi5, yeah the Pi5 might only have a singe Gen3 PCIe lane for data, but having 6 cheap spinning rust drives attached would make a great home NAS
What I find interesting isn't that the SSD was 'only' going 5gb, due to it being SATA...but rather the slower HDD's which are basically empty going SOOooo slow compared to any other drive I've used with a lot of data, nearly 200MB/s yet these were going less than 50MB? wow, something odd
