External Drive Raid
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Anyone have experience with mediasonic? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GYDMYG?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00
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I see nowhere in the description that it says that it is a RAID enclosure but in the comments people are saying that it is not.
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It's definitely not a raid enclosure.
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We should be getting a Sans Digital 8-Bay unit sometime soon here. I'll let you know how it goes. Not planning to use it for anything other than HBA/JBOD, wouldn't trust that "RAID card" included with it to do anything else anyway. The big gotcha with most of these external enclosures is finding an eSATA card that supports the port multiplier.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I see nowhere in the description that it says that it is a RAID enclosure but in the comments people are saying that it is not.
Ah,
Here's the correct link http://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-ProRaid-H8R2-SU3S2-External-Enclosure/dp/B005GYDMYQ
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That makes more sense. But no, have not used one.
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@Jason said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I see nowhere in the description that it says that it is a RAID enclosure but in the comments people are saying that it is not.
Ah,
Here's the correct link http://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-ProRaid-H8R2-SU3S2-External-Enclosure/dp/B005GYDMYQ
Wouldn't trust that "hardware embedded raid" at all. Present drives to a system, yes, raid no.
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@travisdh1 said:
Wouldn't trust that "hardware embedded raid" at all. Present drives to a system, yes, raid no.
Problem is doing RAID remotely is terrible, too.
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@travisdh1 said:
We should be getting a Sans Digital 8-Bay unit sometime soon here. I'll let you know how it goes. Not planning to use it for anything other than HBA/JBOD, wouldn't trust that "RAID card" included with it to do anything else anyway. The big gotcha with most of these external enclosures is finding an eSATA card that supports the port multiplier.
Gotta be USB3.0 or thunderbolt. This is for my macbook pro.
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Have you looked at the Drobo options? RAID 6 on those with SSD tiering option.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Have you looked at the Drobo options? RAID 6 on those with SSD tiering option.
To pricey when they hold enough drives.. unless Drobo wants to give me one.
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Yeah - it's funny - "drives are cheap, drives are cheap" I hear all the time, and so often, the drive subsystem is 2-3 times the cost of the computational and RAM portions. Drives are definitely not cheap. And good storage arrays are not cheap either.
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@Dashrender said:
Yeah - it's funny - "drives are cheap, drives are cheap" I hear all the time, and so often, the drive subsystem is 2-3 times the cost of the computational and RAM portions. Drives are definitely not cheap. And good storage arrays are not cheap either.
Drive are cheap. Raid controllers and enclosures aren't.
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@Jason said:
@Dashrender said:
Yeah - it's funny - "drives are cheap, drives are cheap" I hear all the time, and so often, the drive subsystem is 2-3 times the cost of the computational and RAM portions. Drives are definitely not cheap. And good storage arrays are not cheap either.
Drive are cheap. Raid controllers and enclosures aren't.
Yea,.. I just put a ReadyNAS 314 online here,.. Cost kept me from really pushing the drives like I may have should. I should have gone Diskless and picked up the drives over a month. Ah well. Live/Learn/Repeat.
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@gjacobse said:
@Jason said:
@Dashrender said:
Yeah - it's funny - "drives are cheap, drives are cheap" I hear all the time, and so often, the drive subsystem is 2-3 times the cost of the computational and RAM portions. Drives are definitely not cheap. And good storage arrays are not cheap either.
Drive are cheap. Raid controllers and enclosures aren't.
Yea,.. I just put a ReadyNAS 314 online here,.. Cost kept me from really pushing the drives like I may have should. I should have gone Diskless and picked up the drives over a month. Ah well. Live/Learn/Repeat.
Some day we won't need enclousres, they will just use PCIE/thunderbolt on the drives themselves then you can just chain them all together and then plug into the computer...
Edit: I should be clear Thunderbolt is PCIE that's what I put both.
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spin off here: http://mangolassi.it/topic/8590/when-will-sata-be-dead
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If you want one that actually works nicely and "does what it says on the tin" then check out these bad boys.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108185 (Canadian link, Canadian $$$)
For cheaper you could whitebox a solution but then it'd be network only.
Edit: why not network it? I've seen you ask for local connections but no reason for it.
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@MattSpeller said:
If you want one that actually works nicely and "does what it says on the tin" then check out these bad boys.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108185 (Canadian link, Canadian $$$)
For cheaper you could whitebox a solution but then it'd be network only.
Edit: why not network it? I've seen you ask for local connections but no reason for it.
Needs to be DAS. NAS isn't nearly fast enough for the data. also Macbooks are Wifi only making it worse.
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@Jason said:
Needs to be DAS. NAS isn't nearly fast enough for the data. also Macbooks are Wifi only making it worse.
Thunderbolt gives them GigE.
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@Jason said:
@MattSpeller said:
If you want one that actually works nicely and "does what it says on the tin" then check out these bad boys.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108185 (Canadian link, Canadian $$$)
For cheaper you could whitebox a solution but then it'd be network only.
Edit: why not network it? I've seen you ask for local connections but no reason for it.
Needs to be DAS. NAS isn't nearly fast enough for the data. also Macbooks are Wifi only making it worse.
What kind of connector on the DAS are you using?
