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Oh yeah. I bet you’re feeling lucky you didn’t switch to Synology given the recent drama where they’re locking features down to their branded hard drives, which we all know are just up-charged drives from regular vendors.

What drive bay enclosure are you using btw and how does it connect to your Mac mini?

Never heard of dockge. I’ll have to check it out! I’ve just been using podman and docker-compose scripts.

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lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Drive bay I’m using is a Sabrent DS-SC4B, connected via USB3. I’m currently collecting parts for an actual tower build based on a G4560T.

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- Sproutling@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Interesting! I am assuming each drive shows up as an independent drive that you can raid up however you want in software? Man I was looking for something like this, but at the time I was building my NAS, I couldn’t find something similar so I just decided to build a whole new machine with enough space to contain the drives themselves. Had I known, I might have gone with this and a NUC or something. How’s the performance?
  
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  - lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    I am assuming each drive shows up as an independent drive that you can raid up however you want in software?
    
    Yeah, each drive is shown as if they were individually attached the machine. RAID how you want (or don’t). I’ve got three 4TB drives in an 8TB RAID5, one 4TB that contains data from my gaming PC that I’m working on moving to the RAID, and then a separate 8TB external drive that everything on the RAID array is rsynced to for backup (not ideal but it’s something).
    
    Man I was looking for something like this, but at the time I was building my NAS, I couldn’t find something similar so I just decided to build a whole new machine with enough space to contain the drives themselves. Had I known, I might have gone with this and a NUC or something.
    
    I’m actually going the other way and building a proper server out of an ancient HP Proliant DL110 G2 that my dad gave me. Shockingly, it’s fully ATX compatible and has 8+ drive bays. I’m just reusing the case though and stuffing it with more modern components; it was originally equipped with a Pentium 4 😂 I’m not a fan of the single USB connection for all that data.
    
    How’s the performance?
    
    Sufficient I suppose. Limited by the single USB 3 connection. The Mac mini isn’t stressed at all, but the RJ45 connector has some fucky Apple weirdness about it that causes it to go to sleep periodically. There’s a workaround for it that I applied a while ago, but it still drops out occasionally. But, that’s an Apple-specific problem, not the enclosure. The enclosure works fine.
    
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