How reliable are those though? The ones I’ve looked at have really crappy controllers.
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just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 days ago4-bay USB4 enclosure is $60. It’ll do fine.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They don’t have controllers. They present as JBOD. Great for software RAID, btrfs, ZFS…etc.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Surely it has a USB controller that translates SATA to USB, no? I’ve heard many of these JBOB enclosures have problems with drives falling off the bus or something in 24/7 operation.
Here’s a video from Level1Techs about USB enclosures, and at the 12 min mark or so, he talks about the USB controllers on these enclosures typically being trash. The one he recommends was $130 ($150 currently) and still has that issue with getting locked up if the connection is bad (e.g. cable gets bumped).
He does mention the USB-C controllers are getting better, so maybe those cheap emclosures are fine.
tomten@lemmy.world 3 days ago
yeah I wouldn’t trust a usb enclose
cmeu@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This all day. USB3 has plenty of bandwidth to keep those spinners busy, and a cheap pc can be bought for under $200 that would handle all the services op described, plus more.
I bought an n150 with 12gb RAM, dual 2.5gb nic, built in name and USB 3.2. it uses like 15w of power, is basically silent, and with a 5 bay HDD attached I’ve got enough storage for whatever.
Building a home lab server from components is only a good idea if you have some really specific use case not covered by cheap imports…