Trying to squeeze some more storage in my MiniPC. I have questions about these. These use hardward RAID with selectable modes (Individual/JBOD/RAID1/RAID2).

  1. If I use RAID 1 and one of the drives fails, will I know?

  2. If a drive fails, and a slap in a new one, will it internally begin repairing RAID 1 again?

  3. Can I use these as “individual” or JBOD and have 2 separate drives through the same connector, and use something like TrueNAS to software-RAID them?

  • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 年前

    I think their goal is to minimize space since it’s a mini-pc, so they don’t have 2 slots to spare but still want 2 drives? That’s how I interpreted it, at least.

    • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.comEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      Ahh good point.

      Heat may be an issue if it is very cramped, but could work. Letting the motherboard handle raid would be better, but add one heck of a bottleneck. I’m still leaning towards one large SSD or perhaps external storage.

      A video archive on external would work fine for a couple users, but sharing disk bandwidth with the system would suck pretty fast.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlOPEnglish
        1·
        2 年前

        Heat may be an issue if it is very cramped

        There is a fan for the SSD.

        I’m still leaning towards one large SSD

        Then there’s no redundancy.

        or perhaps external storage.

        I have no way to add external storage. It’s my understanding that USB storage does not work well.

        • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 年前

          Have you considered SD card(s) as your redundancy? They’re not great/ideal, but microSD are incredibly small. Or this may be a good use case for a local NAS placed somewhere else in your home that your PC backs up to nightly?

          • helenslunch@feddit.nlOPEnglish
            1·
            2 年前

            I have not. It seems M.2 SATA drives would be better than SD cards, no?

            How would I go about using SD cards?