[PLUG] Mediasonic Probox issues

[Bill Barry]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2022, 3:33 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, Ben Koenig wrote:
>
> > Step away from the command prompt and look at your enclosure as someone
> > who will be using it every single day.
> >
> > - How many bays does your enclosure have?
> > -How many ports does it use to connect to your computer?
> > -What kind of ports are they?
> > -which ports do they connect to on your computer?
>
> Ben,
>
> All the above is well defined: 4 bays, 1 USB connection on each end of the
> cable.
>
> > Forget about drive letters. You cant rely on sda/b/c for this so set
> fdisk aside.
>
> I'm used to thinking of drive letters; have done so for ~40 years.
>
>

You can give labels to the disks if you can't remember the uuid's

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/persistent_block_device_naming

Bill

The RAID drives seem to be doing okay.
>
> To make life simpler for myself, now and later, I'll wipe the two 2TiB
> drives and install ext4 on each which will be mounted as /data2 and /data3
> since no spatial data file I have (or likely will have) will be anywhere
> near that size.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>