- cross-posted to:
- minipcs@lemmy.world
- selfhosting@slrpnk.net
- selfhosted@lemmit.online
- cross-posted to:
- minipcs@lemmy.world
- selfhosting@slrpnk.net
- selfhosted@lemmit.online
Thought this might be helpful as a lot of these mini PCs are hitting the used market.
Yeah, I don’t understand why JBOD with a decent chipset is so hard to find. I really don’t expect much from it, I just want to slide some drives in and have everything run consistently for a few months at a time. I’ll power cycle periodically to apply updates, so I’m not looking for 24/7/365 operation or anything.
FWIW, Level1Techs seems to recommend MediaSonic (timestamp is where he talks about reliability), but doesn’t give it a ringing endorsement. And that was one of the better ones he’s seen…
After a bunch of research, what I’ve found is:
Now I’m looking for compact cases that support 5 drives, like this one (a little too cheap perhaps?) or this one. It just seems reliable 4-5 bay USB-C enclosures just aren’t that popular.