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?

  • @helenslunch@feddit.nlOPEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    Heat may be an issue if it is very cramped

    There is a fan for the SSD.

    I’m still leaning towards one large SSD

    Then there’s no redundancy.

    or perhaps external storage.

    I have no way to add external storage. It’s my understanding that USB storage does not work well.

    • @bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•7 months ago

      Have you considered SD card(s) as your redundancy? They’re not great/ideal, but microSD are incredibly small. Or this may be a good use case for a local NAS placed somewhere else in your home that your PC backs up to nightly?

      • @helenslunch@feddit.nlOPEnglish
        1•7 months ago

        I have not. It seems M.2 SATA drives would be better than SD cards, no?

        How would I go about using SD cards?