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).
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If I use RAID 1 and one of the drives fails, will I know?
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If a drive fails, and a slap in a new one, will it internally begin repairing RAID 1 again?
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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?
Because there’s no redundancy.
Which is fair, I suppose, if you really only have one SATA port left. Then a RAID 1 through that device might work well enough. Wouldn’t be my first choice though… and definitely not for RAID 0. Not that RAID 0 should be anyone’s first choice, nowadays.
Just making the best with what I’ve got.
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.
Yes. There is. Unless the controller decides before it dies to wipe the disks for some reason?
And like I said to the other person, “No.”
No one is talking about backups.
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.