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).

  1. If I use RAID 1 and one of the drives fails, will I know?

  2. If a drive fails, and a slap in a new one, will it internally begin repairing RAID 1 again?

  3. 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?

  • aard@kyu.deEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    JBOD relies on an optional SATA extension, which most of your controllers won’t have.

    That leaves you with RAID in the controller - which is a bad idea, as you don’t have much control over what is going on, and recovery if it fails will possibly messy.

      • aard@kyu.deEnglish
        8·
        3 months ago

        Because it does JBOD if the controller supports it. Pretty much none of the controllers you’ll find in consumer hardware support that.