Here is the latest firmware:
https://sabrent.com/community/xen...ost-269862
Scroll to the last post for details. You need to flash the firmware per bay and will need a hard drive in that specific bay to flash the firmware! If you have time to flash one by one, you can define name like per port numbering so it show up properly in device manager! I really want to hard drive sleep timeout feature and looks like this fix it!
For those that got device cannot be flashed due to improper hardware, select that mystery drive and hit safely remove and try again!
expirediconian | Staff posted Mar 29, 2024 06:44 PM
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expirediconian | Staff posted Mar 29, 2024 06:44 PM
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The Mini PCs we normally see listed max out with 2.5Gbps networking. So this would be able to keep up and saturate the pipe. If you needed more bandwidth, having separate direct SATA connections would be needed, likely with some type of external SAS connection.
10 drives is very large, unless you are going for extremely cheap small drives to fill the array. IMO it's better to use larger drives as each drive consumes power to run. UGreen has a Kickstarter going right now that has some really crazy deals for NASes that are supposed to ship in June. You might be more bang for your buck there.
Also, anyone thinking of using this many drives, Go with at least one parity disk, or even better two. The chance of data loss increases as you move to more and more drives. Not caring about movies on a single 10TB drive... fine. Not caring about 180TB, that's going to be a much larger pain to replace everything.
I was checking what level of support it has from Sabrent (zero, they have really gone downhill with firmware updates) and there's a thread about how it doesn't have automatic power recovery to bring the drives back up after power loss.
actually, i am not even sure of the reference? but sabrent is very well known in ssd and pc component business for the last 5-10 years
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Unless you have a very specific use case for this it's a rip off.
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Now, if you're looking to utilize 10 platter drives all in a RAID 0 to just thrash data around with... I don't think you'd find something similar unless you interface directly with said system --
thrashing this way can be done with something like what this device is OR via SAS controller cards, which would be way cheaper but then you'd need to still power and house the drives.... which would still be way cheaper
the big benefit for a device like this is that this device is just plug and go. with how much NVME drives cost, I think I'd rather go with these in an enclosure over this... it's an odd case -- I can't think of why I'd want to use 10 platter disks to thrash data on unless I just had a lot of platter disks laying around already... and with hardware raids you usually want to just have same size, same brand, same everything going on -- so the likeliness of a use case like this goes way down to me...
to each their own, do what works for you -- I still think that if you want to be using platter based drives to serve up data in a normal usage scenario, you're still way better off designing your own system, it's still going to cost about the same and you'll have way more features
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With a large number of drives, it's recommended to do dual parity, as a rebuild from a drive lose put large stress on all of the drives and a second failure occurring during a rebuild isn't uncommon.
With a large number of drives, it's recommended to do dual parity, as a rebuild from a drive lose put large stress on all of the drives and a second failure occurring during a rebuild isn't uncommon.
the complexity just keeps getting more and more with this usage scenario and then you start getting into alternatives like fast NVME drives... the more I think about this device the more of an oddball it is, it does have a very narrow use case that I can think of, but that use case is so narrow it's almost comical -- I can't think of a scenario where I would need to have a 10 drive array with external interfaces to thrash data on... maybe if I had a team of multiple video editors with their own laptops that they'd want to use with this?
bear in mind too -- this is just for thrashing data with - it'd be workspacing so if the array were to fail it'd be OK, just have to replenish it to keep thrashing... don't need redundancy
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Now, if you're looking to utilize 10 platter drives all in a RAID 0 to just thrash data around with... I don't think you'd find something similar unless you interface directly with said system --
thrashing this way can be done with something like what this device is OR via SAS controller cards, which would be way cheaper but then you'd need to still power and house the drives.... which would still be way cheaper
the big benefit for a device like this is that this device is just plug and go. with how much NVME drives cost, I think I'd rather go with these in an enclosure over this... it's an odd case -- I can't think of why I'd want to use 10 platter disks to thrash data on unless I just had a lot of platter disks laying around already... and with hardware raids you usually want to just have same size, same brand, same everything going on -- so the likeliness of a use case like this goes way down to me...
to each their own, do what works for you -- I still think that if you want to be using platter based drives to serve up data in a normal usage scenario, you're still way better off designing your own system, it's still going to cost about the same and you'll have way more features
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