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Amazon has SABRENT 10 Bay 3.5" SATA Hard Drive Tray Less Docking Station (DS-UCTB) on sale for $398.38 when you apply promo code 200XUCTB during checkout. Shipping is free.

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About this Item:
  • USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C port supports transfer speeds of up to 10 Gbps
  • 10x SATA 6 Gbit/s 3.5" hard drive tray-less bays
  • Hot-Swappable with 10 independent ON/OFF power switches
  • Two 120mm fans for additional cooling capability
  • Note: This multi-bay station does NOT have built in RAID functionality. However, software RAID configurations are possible

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Model: SABRENT 10 Bay 3.5” SATA Hard Drive Tray Less Docking Station (USB 3.2 Type C and Type A) (DS-UCTB)

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Last Edited by stormlight May 14, 2024 at 05:49 PM
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!

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The issue is 10 drives sharing the 10Gbps USB 3.1 gen 2 interface. Hardware RAID is no longer recommended as software can keep up and gives the flexibility in not being paired with a specific controller or losing all of your data.

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.
Be sure to throw it on a UPS.

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.
they are sausages, not hot dogs, get it right!


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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04-03-2024 at 02:12 PM.
04-03-2024 at 02:12 PM.
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I need an AI commercial remover.
That's a lot of work.
This was a thing backed when I was messing around with TV recording on Windows MCE. Tivo also perfected it way back when and had to disable it to not be sued.

Give comskip a try, it auto identifies the commercials. You can then use other programs to cut out just the commercials before you do your re-encode. But it might be best to review what it's doing, it's always possible something isn't detected right and starts deleting things it shouldn't.

https://github.com/erikkaashoek/Comskip
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04-03-2024 at 02:22 PM.
04-03-2024 at 02:22 PM.
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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.
is this kickstarter ugreen 4 slot a good option for plex with a mac mini, or is it overkill? is the sabrent here a better option? i'm just wanting to play tv shows & movies via plex.
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So, no way to get the drives to hardware RAID controller?! Any array controllers take USB?
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04-03-2024 at 03:27 PM.
04-03-2024 at 03:27 PM.
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is this kickstarter ugreen 4 slot a good option for plex with a mac mini, or is it overkill? is the sabrent here a better option? i'm just wanting to play tv shows & movies via plex.
Mac Mini doesn't matter. The UGreen should be an excellent solution for Plex, you can run it directly on the NAS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMNoyim3B5w

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.
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04-03-2024 at 03:47 PM.
04-03-2024 at 03:47 PM.
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So, no way to get the drives to hardware RAID controller?! Any array controllers take USB?

No, but you can run software raid. Windows Storage Spaces, StableBit DrivePool, ZFS if you're on Linux. Should all work fine.

I guess StoreMI doesn't do USB storage, oh well.
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Where's your source for that? Because my source says otherwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l55GfAwa8RI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_JOtEBFHDs
My source is 25 years in the IT industry running IT/compute infrastructure for companies ranging from a smaller tech company (~150 people, ~200 servers) to a large enterprise (~20k people, ~15k+ VMs running on ~2k servers) and various environments in between. My "source" is various colleagues and and former coworkers, industry conferences, and what is deployed our data centers.

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.
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"You didn't look hard enough"

Called it in another comment. Every time, without fail.
have u managed to find google yet? http://www.google.com/ its a great place to find info. try it, if u can manage to find the energy.
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04-03-2024 at 05:16 PM.
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Mac Mini doesn't matter. The UGreen should be an excellent solution for Plex, you can run it directly on the NAS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMNoyim3B5w

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.
thank you. what are the benefits of the plus version?
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thank you. what are the benefits of the plus version?
CPU that has one high performance core, can do up to 64GB of ram rather than 16GB. And 1x 10Gbps Ethernet + 1x 2.5Gbps rather than 2x 2.5Gbps.

For just a basic NAS and Plex, it's not needed.
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My source is 25 years in the IT industry running IT/compute infrastructure for companies ranging from a smaller tech company (~150 people, ~200 servers) to a large enterprise (~20k people, ~15k+ VMs running on ~2k servers) and various environments in between. My "source" is various colleagues and and former coworkers, industry conferences, and what is deployed our data centers.

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.

Ah, so your source is your own ass. I see.

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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have u managed to find google yet? http://www.google.com/ its a great place to find info. try it, if u can manage to find the energy.

I don't use Google, not a fan of their data privacy practices. Also they've really gone downhill recently. I switched to DuckDuckGo.
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Is it really that surprising that most people don't want to build computers to add storage? I build my own primary computers but I also bought a Terramaster DAS when it was on sale. I love it, it's small, and it fits nicely on my desk.
honestly yes, knowing that long-term properly resilient storage is it's own problem that requires ongoing monitoring from a separate system, regular scrubbing, regular (preferably automated) backups to an off-site system, and ESPECIALLY if you want multiple users to access the data (that part is optional though). at this point, I think that everyone who wants more storage than will fit on their primary ssd should probably own a proper 6-8 bay nas at this point.
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So, no way to get the drives to hardware RAID controller?! Any array controllers take USB?
No, and it shouldn't. USB is pretty darned flakey and loves to disconnect, there's also quite a bit of processing overhead when it comes to usb vs. an actual storage technology like sata or sas.
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No, but you can run software raid. Windows Storage Spaces, StableBit DrivePool, ZFS if you're on Linux. AMD got some software renamed to StoreMI for them. Should all work fine
storemi will only work on amd's on-motherboard sata ports. it doesn't use usb (nor should it). windows storage spaces is a nightmare when it comes to overall reliability. I've heard of stablebit drivepool, but I haven't used it personally, I can't speak for it. I typically don't recommend trying to set up big reliable storage on windows, best to throw together a truenas box or buy an off-the-shelf nas so it can properly manage the storage, do scrubbing, and handle redundancy.
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storemi will only work on amd's on-motherboard sata ports. it doesn't use usb (nor should it). windows storage spaces is a nightmare when it comes to overall reliability. I've heard of stablebit drivepool, but I haven't used it personally, I can't speak for it. I typically don't recommend trying to set up big reliable storage on windows, best to throw together a truenas box or buy an off-the-shelf nas so it can properly manage the storage, do scrubbing, and handle redundancy.

Any source on the reliability claims of Storage Spaces?
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