I wonder if it was just a shitty chipset, or if it was overheating.
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mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoIf you’re going to run the drives as individual drives in the enclosure, you should be fine but if you set them up as a RAID array, USB won’t work well. The connection is too unreliable and will cause issues. I’ve tried with a 10-bay USB-C enclosure using unRAID, Fedora, and Debian. I tried multiple cables. It just kept dropping the connection during large transfers.
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Nah, I looked into it and USB is just super unreliable for any sort of array. The drives all worked just fine if I ran them as individual drives.
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Yeah but like… where is the weak link? Is there some deficiency in the protocol itself? Or the implementation in the chipset on one or both sides? Or bandwidth, or overheating?
mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
In my case, it wasn’t overheating. Drives rarely got above 75-80F. There were two large fans and plenty of ventilation to pull air through the enclosure. From what I’ve read, mostly on unRAID forums, it is USB that is the issue.
Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Good to know. Storage space is expensive though and anything that’s using the big drives can be downloaded again if needed. So plan was to use online backup for the stuff I can’t lose like immich photos, actual budget etc and if a media drive crashes, I’ll just redownload.