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
SABRENT 10 Bay 3.5” SATA Hard Drive Tray Less Docking Station
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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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You're incorrect about hardware RAID being dead.
Synology alone would never let that happen.
That said, I understand that there are some vendors (such as HP and Dell) that *do* have servers that can be configured for hardware raid from the factory, but they aren't really all that popular anymore, and it's mostly due to the slow-moving offerings from those large Enterprise SIs (who have invested heavily in licensing and integrating hardware raid controllers onto their motherboards). Most data centers, enterprises, and medium/large businesses are typically using EITHER one or more traditional centralized file servers (with expansion via SAS DAEs/fibrechannel/sometimes iscsi) to one or more centralized heads (with lots of ram and maybe an ssd caching layer) using zfs (running either on some flavor of linux or some storage distribution that uses zfs (like truenas) for pool, storage, redundancy, scrubbing, etc) OR some kind of decentralized filesystem such as ceph/glusterfs for foss offerings or weka or similar proprietary options. (not that i'd ever recommend individuals license expensive high performance clustered filesystems with 5+ servers for home data storage).
Plugs into a tiny fanless machine that runs windows server and storage spaces. Excellent for when you need a TON of storage but not a ton of read write. Would recommend at this price.
I don't believe it exists. If I'm right, then I'd be looking forever for something that doesn't exist. Huge waste of time trying and failing to prove myself wrong on behalf of some random internet stranger.
This is why the burden of proof is on the one who claims something exists.
Personally, I'd rather try to piece something together myself with newer hardware but this is just something I went to look up really quick, like what you could do as well.
You can prove something does exist if you believe in it. I cannot prove something doesn't exist, since you could just keep saying I didn't look hard enough. This is why the burden of proof is on the person claiming something exists.
You're the one who came in here and said this is terrible and there are better alternatives. Without proof, you're just thread-crapping and wasting everybody's time.
You can prove something does exist if you believe in it. I cannot prove something doesn't exist, since you could just keep saying I didn't look hard enough. This is why the burden of proof is on the person claiming something exists.
You're the one who came in here and said this is terrible and there are better alternatives. Without proof, you're just thread-crapping and wasting everybody's time.
let's figure this, I'll generously round up for each figure:
$150 - N100 board + NVME SATA adapter
$100 - Computer case that has 10 3.5" bays plus fans - if you're handy you can fit more drives in something like this too
$50 - 1 stick DDR5 16Gb memory
$50 - 500w ATX power supply
right here we're at $350 for a whole computer system that can export your 3.5" drives and also act as a router, among other things -- you can assume this would probably be how much it'd cost post taxes since I padded these numbers - I also think that if you work at it you can probably get even lower for something better
so right here this is why I keep saying I really think that a device like this is overpriced for what it is -- it's just not a "deal" to me
I don't believe it exists. If I'm right, then I'd be looking forever for something that doesn't exist. Huge waste of time trying and failing to prove myself wrong on behalf of some random internet stranger.
This is why the burden of proof is on the one who claims something exists.
Seriously, this stuff is NOT hard to find nor should you "be looking forever for something that doesn't exist" -- you either find it or find out it doesn't exist -- it takes what, a minute?
Just because YOU don't understand something doesn't put the burden on anyone else but YOURSELF to understand and find out.
I wouldn't have a problem sharing links but I know sites like this don't like it when you put out links - I also don't think it's so hard to find and seek these things out
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Seriously, this stuff is NOT hard to find nor should you "be looking forever for something that doesn't exist" -- you either find it or find out it doesn't exist -- it takes what, a minute?
Just because YOU don't understand something doesn't put the burden on anyone else but YOURSELF to understand and find out.
I wouldn't have a problem sharing links but I know sites like this don't like it when you put out links - I also don't think it's so hard to find and seek these things out
I guess I'm the one wasting everybody's time by feeding trolls. It's not like you're gonna stop trolling no matter what I say. "No HDMI port, pass" is a Slickdeals meme because of people like you. Joke's on me.
Seriously, this stuff is NOT hard to find nor should you "be looking forever for something that doesn't exist" -- you either find it or find out it doesn't exist -- it takes what, a minute?
Just because YOU don't understand something doesn't put the burden on anyone else but YOURSELF to understand and find out.
I wouldn't have a problem sharing links but I know sites like this don't like it when you put out links - I also don't think it's so hard to find and seek these things out
If it was $250 less I'd not even bother to mention anything...
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.
let's figure this, I'll generously round up for each figure:
$150 - N100 board + NVME SATA adapter
$100 - Computer case that has 10 3.5" bays plus fans - if you're handy you can fit more drives in something like this too
$50 - 1 stick DDR5 16Gb memory
$50 - 500w ATX power supply
right here we're at $350 for a whole computer system that can export your 3.5" drives and also act as a router, among other things -- you can assume this would probably be how much it'd cost post taxes since I padded these numbers - I also think that if you work at it you can probably get even lower for something better.
so right here this is why I keep saying I really think that a device like this is overpriced for what it is -- it's just not a "deal" to me
And I've tried sharing direct-connected ethernet devices to the rest of a network before. It's a huge pain in the ass if you've never done network config before. Nobody who is actually interested in buying this is gonna wanna get into that.
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I'm confused why it's so great to have a USB 3.2 connection for something like this when you can get an SAS controller card for your machine... Unless you really just use a laptop all time time... But even then, you can't figure to organize drives in their own enclosures then? You NEED access to TEN disks simultaneously at all times? It doesn't really matter to me, I was just hoping there would've been a better answer as to what's so great with this thing... You're definitely paying for what seems to be a marginal convenience....
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