Trying to squeeze some more storage in my MiniPC. I have questions about these. These use hardward RAID with selectable modes (Individual/JBOD/RAID1/RAID2).

  1. If I use RAID 1 and one of the drives fails, will I know?

  2. If a drive fails, and a slap in a new one, will it internally begin repairing RAID 1 again?

  3. Can I use these as “individual” or JBOD and have 2 separate drives through the same connector, and use something like TrueNAS to software-RAID them?

  • @bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4•3 months ago

    I think their goal is to minimize space since it’s a mini-pc, so they don’t have 2 slots to spare but still want 2 drives? That’s how I interpreted it, at least.

    • EbbyEnglish
      1•3 months ago

      Ahh good point.

      Heat may be an issue if it is very cramped, but could work. Letting the motherboard handle raid would be better, but add one heck of a bottleneck. I’m still leaning towards one large SSD or perhaps external storage.

      A video archive on external would work fine for a couple users, but sharing disk bandwidth with the system would suck pretty fast.

      • @helenslunch@feddit.nlOPEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        Heat may be an issue if it is very cramped

        There is a fan for the SSD.

        I’m still leaning towards one large SSD

        Then there’s no redundancy.

        or perhaps external storage.

        I have no way to add external storage. It’s my understanding that USB storage does not work well.

        • @bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1•3 months ago

          Have you considered SD card(s) as your redundancy? They’re not great/ideal, but microSD are incredibly small. Or this may be a good use case for a local NAS placed somewhere else in your home that your PC backs up to nightly?

          • @helenslunch@feddit.nlOPEnglish
            1•3 months ago

            I have not. It seems M.2 SATA drives would be better than SD cards, no?

            How would I go about using SD cards?