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?

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Neither is there if this controller dies… Like the other person said, my response would be “you don’t have 2 sata ports then?”. Better raid support and better capacity. Take it from my life lessons. Raid 0 is not a backup, it is barely redundant. It’s primary use is production environments where you do not want your system to go down when a drive fails.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        12·
        8 months ago

        Okay, I don’t know why you’re downvoting me, and I’m over it. I was trying to help you and understand the question, I was trying not to be argumentative. My honest responses haven’t changed on your questions, I think it’s going to fail quickly, I think you’re going to regret it, and I don’t think it’s good for your use case. But hey, what do I know, I’ve only done basically the same thing and self hosted stuff for 15 years, and was only trying to help you avoid the mistakes I made. Sorry I didn’t just agree with everything you said and was trying to figure out alternatives.