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That was the cheapest option. 🤭
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I appreciate it. The modern world has destroyed my attention span. But I wouldn’t even need to be awake to read that one.
Just download the GBs when you get home
Came to post the same. Seems like the most awkward possible way to phrase that.
Your “Disks not included” suggestion, or heck, just “empty” would surely be better.
Oh no.
Unfortunately I have a lot of experience with this: attaching permanent array members via USB is a bad idea. OP, if it’s not too late, and assuming you haven’t already and decided to double down on yolo, I’d recommend reading about the downsides of this approach. It is easy to find relevant discussions (and catastrophes) in r/zfs.
Thunderbolt enclosures are a bit more expensive, but they won’t periodically fuck up your shit just because.
Thanks for the warning ⚠️🙏
This isn’t my first rodeo with ZFS on USB. I’ve been running USB for a few years now. Recently I ran this particular box through a battery of tests and I’m reasonably confident that with my particular set of hardware it’ll be fine. It passed everything I threw at it, once connected to a good port on my machine. But you’re generally right and as you can see I discussed that in the testing thread, and I encountered some issues that I managed to solve. If you think I’ve missed something specific - let me know! 😊
Is it because USB doesn’t expose proper UUIDs or something?
Bus issues usually. Having a disk (or 4) drop out of a ZFS filesystem regularly isn’t a good time.
If you can find a combination of enclosure, driver/firmware and USB port that provides you with a reliable connection to the drive then USB is just another storage bus. It’s generally not recommended because that combination (enclosure, chipset, firmware, driver, port) is so variable from situation to situation but if you know how to address the pitfalls it can usually work fine.
You want ASMedia ASM1351 (heatsinked) or ASM235CM on the device side 🥹
This box has 4x ASM235CM and from the testing I’ve conducted over the last week it seems rock solid, so long as it’s not connected to the Ryzen’s built-in USB controller. It’s been flawless on the B350 chipset’s USB controller.
so long as it’s not connected to the Ryzen’s built-in USB controller.
Could you elaborate? Do you happen to have any theories as to why?
I have a zen 3 chip and while I’m not planning anything like this, I’m just curious.
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Two machines. A main server/workstation and a small off-site backup machine that runs the same services but hass less compute and RAM.
What are you putting in them?
- 8x 8TB in a set of 2, some shucked WDs, some IronWolfs
- 5x 16TB in a set of 2, “recertified” WDs from serverpartdeals.com
Sweet, just backing up the family photos then?
And probably a bunch of Linux ISOs.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.
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