I’ve been running a 4-disk RAIDz1 on USB for 4 years now with zero failures on one machine and one failure on another where it turned out the USB controller in one WD Elements was overheating. Adhering a small heatsink on it resolved the problem and it’s been stable under load for 2 years now.
Comment on Software vs Hardware RAID
poVoq@slrpnk.net 7 months agoI supposed that is because the JBOD box was handling the raid internally so short connection issues are not that problematic and can be recovered from automatically. But that wouldn’t be the case if you connected everything together with a usb hub and usb to sata adapters and run a software raid on that.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Auli@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I do t know usb c in thunderbolt has direct access to pcie lanes.