Comment on NAS vs larger server
dan@upvote.au 1 year agoWhat do you think about Direct Attached Storage devices that use USB? My small form factor PC has 10Gbps USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports, which should in theory be enough bandwidth for 3 or 4 disks.
Comment on NAS vs larger server
dan@upvote.au 1 year agoWhat do you think about Direct Attached Storage devices that use USB? My small form factor PC has 10Gbps USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports, which should in theory be enough bandwidth for 3 or 4 disks.
greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
relatedly, I used to use a 4x bay USB3 caddy for some disks… It was OK, but didn’t expose the raw disks and the controller was pretty fucky swallowing things like SMART.