[PLUG] USB enclosures

[Tom]

I understand that you are choosing RAID0 because you need 8+8=16GB of
storage space instead of redundancy.
I would advise you against using RAID0 if you care about your data -
single disk failure and you loose everything.
JBOD will give you the same storage space at about the same performance
over 1Gb/s ethernet + you are only risking some of the data, depending
which disk fails. So, JBOD is lower risk at almost no tradeoff versus
not-redundant RAID0 over 1Gb/s network.
RAID0 is really only useful for performance reasons as locally
connected storage inside a workstation - it doubles the disk speed.
That being said, local SSD/NVME will beat 2 disk HDD RAID0 in common
desktop/media/engineering workloads.
Tomas
On Tue, 2017-04-04 at 15:19 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 15:25:26 -0700
> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:
> 
> > On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 11:04:30 -0700
> > Galen Seitz <galens at seitzassoc.com> dijo:
> > 
> > > On 04/03/17 10:40, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > > > I am looking for a 2-bay USB enclosure, at least USB 3.0, with
> > > > internal software capable of Raid 0. I have been looking at the
> > > > ICY
> > > > DOCK MB662U3-2S:
> 
> The shopping is done. I ordered two WD 8TB Red Pro drives (5 year
> warranty) and the Mediasonic ProRaid HUR3-SU3S3 2 Bay 3.5" SATA Hard
> Drive Enclosure - USB 3.0 & eSATA Support UASP and SATA III 6.0Gbps
> Speed:
> 
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KCEAXJW/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza
> 
> The drives are coming from an eBay seller with two-day shipping. The
> Mediasonic is coming from Mediasonic Inc, fulfilled by Amazon,
> expected
> by April 10.
> 
> When it all gets here I will make a final backup of the current old
> and
> end of life 5TB USB drive to the Synology, then pull the 6TB WD Red
> Pro
> drive out of the Synology and set it aside. Then I will install the
> new
> 8TB drives in the Synology and set them up as Raid 0, and make sure
> the
> computer can mount the Synology the same as it now does. And then I
> will
> back up the old 5TB USB drive to the Synology again, now backing up
> to
> the new drives with 16TB of space.
> 
> And finally, I will put the 6TB drive from the Synology into the new
> Mediasonic USB enclosure and plug it into the computer, unplugging
> the
> old 5TB drive to retire it for good. And then I will have some tricky
> stuff to make sure all the programs and the operating system can find
> and use the 6TB in the Mediasonic the same as they used to see and
> use
> the old 5TB drive. 
> 
> I hope my plan works. :)
> 
> Thanks to all for the advice and suggestions. :)
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