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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Home use and products targeted towards it. Have moved to software RAID because it's good enough for that use, and general purpose. CPUs have gotten fast enough that they can meet the performance needs for those use cases. That doesn't mean hardware raid is dead. Will be anytime soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l55GfAw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_JOtEB
It's odd they went with Kickstarter versus selling directly from their own store. But it seems like they are trying to get more eyes on their entry into this new hardware segment.
Software is the big unknown as things aren't done yet. But it sounds like they are coming around to not actively blocking installation of other things like TrueNAS or ProxMox. So even if they end up without having a great software experience, you could put something else on it. That's exactly what I did with my TerraMaster NAS, TOS is fine, but TrueNAS has more support behind it, and uses standards so I wouldn't be locked to get my data even if the NAS itself fails. I can just move the drives to a new PC and access everything.
10Gbps is plenty for this particular purpose, when the most you'll be interfacing with is one computer and two drives possessing contiguous data at a time.
I'm not sure what ChatGPT you pulled your response from, but try to do the math on your own:
10Gbps is 1250MBps. A conservative estimate on each drive is 125MBps. Thus 1250 / 125 = 10.
I was very clear in my first comment that this setup is fine for what it does as long as you don't try to make it do more. Hence, no software RAID, which has a tremendous overhead compared to a dedicated RAID controller.
Also, who told you that software RAID is preferred these days? You could be saving server farms millions of dollars with this knowledge... if it were remotely true.
What was your response meant to piggyback on, other than to advertise for some Kickstarter?
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Dedicating one parity disk for every four data disks and maxing out each bay with a 20TB drive (could even go higher) provides a max of 160TB of data in a single enclosure.
There's a lot of NAS vs. DAS debate in this thread, but it all boils down to your specific needs and use case. For me, I decided to prioritize storage and utilize my existing gaming desktop to handle Plex transcoding vs. pay the premium for a separate NAS with worse specs. If you need something powered on 24/7, then a NAS probably makes more sense.
So you would recommend buying two 5 bay enclosures instead?
So you would recommend buying two 5 bay enclosures instead?
My desktop is five years old and unfortunately only has USB-A 2.0 and 3.0 ports, so I cannot comment on USB-C speeds. That being said, as a primarily archival mass data storage device I find the read/write speeds suit my needs.
This thing works great if you're planning on running a Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin media server–no issues with read speeds streaming 4K lossless files. If you're looking for more of a scratch/working drive and are concerned with read/write speeds over capacity, SSDs would be a better bet. This device is aimed at data hoarders looking to maximize storage capacity within a single enclosure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l55GfAw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_JOtEB
For any person who has 10 1-2tb drives and needs a bay. 😂
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