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by smokeydoe 294 days ago
What enclosure do you use? I had trouble finding a good one.
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tombert 294 days ago
I've had mixed luck too. The one I'm using now has been mostly ok. https://a.co/d/4AiF1Zp

It actually has been considerably more reliable than the MediaSonics than they replaced.

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c-hendricks 294 days ago
Can you give a little more details on how the enclosures work? Do you see each drive individually, or does each enclosure show as one "drive" which you then put into a zfs pool.

I'm looking to retire my power hungry 4790k server and go with a mini pc + external storage.

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Marsymars 294 days ago
Replied to another comment with my setup - I use a QNAP JBOD enclosure (TL-D800S) connected to a mini-itx PC. (You do need at least one PCIe slot.) Shows up as 8 drives in the OS, the enclosure has no smarts.

I wouldn't do USB-connected enclosures for NAS drives - either SATA via SFF, or Thunderbolt.

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tombert 294 days ago
In my case, each drive shows up individually. I create a new vdev encompassing all of them.
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jimis 294 days ago
Each drive shows up as an external USB mass storage device?
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tombert 294 days ago
I don’t know if it’s USB mass storage. It just shows up as separate devices in lsblk.
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__turbobrew__ 294 days ago
Ive seen a lot of people linking beelink mini PCs lately: https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-me-mini-n150

The cost is very low, but it would have to be a nvme only build.

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