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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMNoyim
That video shows Plex running, it's using the Plus version of the 4 bay, but base N100 version will also work. I use an N100 Mini PC for to run Plex right now.
I guess StoreMI doesn't do USB storage, oh well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l55GfAw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_JOtEB
Go into any decent data center and nearly every server in nearly every rack is going to have a pair of system/OS disks on hardware RAID1. Additionally, depending on the type of computing, it's going to be using hardware RAID for local disks if its making use of local storage, or it's going to be using SAN and/or NAS in some way (which will be using hardware RAID).
This is basic, cheap "insurance" to improve the reliability and robustness of a server. You don't want to lose a physical server because the OS drive fails. That's a huge waste of time and resources to recover. Instead, business buy their servers with paired OS drives so that when a drive fails, they just ping their hardware support vendor, have a replacement disk sent out, and they hot-swap the failed disk and let the hardware RAID1 automatically rebuild it.
Called it in another comment. Every time, without fail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMNoyim
That video shows Plex running, it's using the Plus version of the 4 bay, but base N100 version will also work. I use an N100 Mini PC for to run Plex right now.
For just a basic NAS and Plex, it's not needed.
Go into any decent data center and nearly every server in nearly every rack is going to have a pair of system/OS disks on hardware RAID1. Additionally, depending on the type of computing, it's going to be using hardware RAID for local disks if its making use of local storage, or it's going to be using SAN and/or NAS in some way (which will be using hardware RAID).
This is basic, cheap "insurance" to improve the reliability and robustness of a server. You don't want to lose a physical server because the OS drive fails. That's a huge waste of time and resources to recover. Instead, business buy their servers with paired OS drives so that when a drive fails, they just ping their hardware support vendor, have a replacement disk sent out, and they hot-swap the failed disk and let the hardware RAID1 automatically rebuild it.
I am also an IT professional with 25 years of experience in doing all the things you said. I also have various colleagues and former coworkers who have told me things about IT. And we all agree that you're wrong.
There, now we are on equal footing in that regard. But I'm still ahead in terms of visible, researchable links to proof.
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Go into any decent data center and nearly every server in nearly every rack is going to have a pair of system/OS disks on hardware RAID1. Additionally, depending on the type of computing, it's going to be using hardware RAID for local disks if its making use of local storage, or it's going to be using SAN and/or NAS in some way (which will be using hardware RAID).
This is basic, cheap "insurance" to improve the reliability and robustness of a server. You don't want to lose a physical server because the OS drive fails. That's a huge waste of time and resources to recover. Instead, business buy their servers with paired OS drives so that when a drive fails, they just ping their hardware support vendor, have a replacement disk sent out, and they hot-swap the failed disk and let the hardware RAID1 automatically rebuild it.
there's no way I would set up a linux, bsd, or virtualization server with hardware raid these days, however, as they support zfs, bcachefs, ceph, glusterfs, etc. which are all better approaches than traditional hardware raid due to improved reliability.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoar...e_av
https://answers.microso
https://www.tenforums.c
https://www.truenas.com/community...ace
just a few minutes of googling arround *shrug*
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https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoar...e_av
https://answers.microso
https://www.tenforums.c
https://www.truenas.com/community...ace
just a few minutes of googling arround *shrug*
The ones that complain about reliability all seem to be 10 years old or older. We're on windows 11 now. I think they've fixed some of the problems at this point.
Maybe I'll try StoreMI instead. Thanks for the links.
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