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these types of enclosures are going to be using UAS, USB attached SCSI, which is relatively new. It should deliver a more reliable and manageable experience for
by jcrawfordor 3y ago
these types of enclosures are going to be using UAS, USB attached SCSI, which is relatively new. It should deliver a more reliable and manageable experience for external drive enclosures in general (e.g. proper addressing of which drive you want to talk to). If nothing else it's a different code path though.
I've been using a multi-drive UAS enclosure over USB3 as the storage for a VMS for some time, it feels a little weird given USB's history but it has been very reliable and easily saturates the drives from a bandwidth perspective. I'll probably go the same route for bulk storage in the future, since it's a lot easier to get small machines with USB than small machines with 4+ SATA channels.
- Bagged2347 3y agoWhich UAS enclosure are you using? Would you recommend it? Any quirks to know about?
- jcrawfordor 3y agoI use https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/s352bu313r https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/s352bu313r The internal RAID is neat and I used it for a while, but lately I've had it configured as a JBOD and I let the VMS manage which drive it puts things on. But probably the best thing to do would be to configure it as JBOD (it has DIP switches to choose the mode) and use it with whatever software volume manager you prefer, lvm or btrfs or whatever.