SABRENT 10 Bay 3.5” SATA Hard Drive Tray Less Docking Station Expired

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.

Any source on the reliability claims of Storage Spaces?

https://datacenteroverlords.com/2...y-storage/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoar...e_avoided/

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-...4ea12b727f

https://www.tenforums.com/drivers...-help.html

https://www.truenas.com/community...aces.9961/

just a few minutes of googling arround *shrug*

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

Thanks for giving me a use case for this - this I can understand since you really just wind up needing more and more and more when capturing stuff like that.... I didn't even really know that those dishes are still usable anymore!

there was a docker container I used to use to strip out commercials called "auto-comskip" but I can see the image for that was decommissioned -- it was a big game of cat and mouse but it did seem to work maybe 80% of the time... at least it didn't remove primary content from my usage.

Most of what I'm reading here is referring to the horrible write speeds when using parity spaces. Which I agree with. It is farking terrible for that.

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.

There's actually a solution to this:
https://wasteofserver.com/storage...es-solved/

And if you need SSD caching on top of that, I've been using StableBit DrivePool to absorb writes to an NVMe SSD before offloading it onto spinning disks, whether they're individual or an underyling Storage Spaces array

You know, I actually found that and skimmed it before I made my pool. Guess I didn't fully understand it. Unfortunately, I already put 2.6 terabytes onto it

How about getting 10G networking on client devices? And a 10G router/switch? Or even better, actual links or screenshots or other forms of proof for any of the claims you're making? Even if you're right, just saying something exists doesn't really help most people.

LOL! What claims? Are you referring to the features I listed? Maybe go search the terms if you are not familiar with them. Educate yourself on the product, don't depend on some rando (me) on the internet to make your buying decisions.

This tread is about a storage enclosure. I did mention eBay for the complete USED servers and even included the model, which is what you could compare to this posting, IMHO.

If you inquiry is earnest, I'd be happy to share more of my opinions, but I not sure that's what you are after.

because USB is immensely unreliable, particularly when we're talking about multiple disks, assuming you don't want to lose all of your data to filesystem corruption when usb decides to flake out and disconnect for a second or two which happens way more often than using proper internal sata/sas connections. when it comes to storage, reliability is paramount. Further, typically over usb, the os can't see the disk's self-test data so if it reports that it's starting to fail (i.e. bad block counts are high or some other bad activity flag happens, it won't get reported and you won't know that you need to swap the disk until it's too late.
here's an article on just a few reasons why using multidisk usb storage is generally a bad idea (in the context of truenas, but is similar for other systems as well)

the deal with directly connect ethernet devices is that they ALSO should be connected to your 1g network as well. (so you use your onboard nic on the server to connect it to your normal network switch (same with the workstation), and you connect the high speed network cards together directly. - then on the workstation, you map the network drives using the server's high speed ip address (which should preferably be in a different ip range (i.e. if you use a 192.168.0.x or a 10.0.0.x for your lan, the high speed static link should be 192.168.1.x or 10.0.1.x so that the machines know that they are accessing 2 different networks. - note: if you call the server by name instead of ip, you'll get the slow ip and the data will flow over the slow connection on the workstation. (if you really want to you can manually change this in the hosts file by defining it's name and telling it that name can be found at the high speed link's server ip, but i've never bothered.

USB has plenty of error correction built in to help protect against any random disconnects. You're not gonna lose your entire drive from USB disconnecting for 2 seconds. I also personally use Teracopy for file transfers, as it compares checksums of a file before and after copying to confirm they're identical before it deletes the source file.

You can definitely still get SMART data over USB. All of my USB enclosures can, and I'm sure this one can too. You can't get smart data through a RAID card, though. That's well documented.

Yeah, I'm not gonna do all that networking stuff just to add more storage to my computer, and no one else who clicked to look at this will either.

Thanks for the info! I forgot to mention that they make TV tuners like the old converter boxes but they record to a USB drive. I'm sure you know but others might not and may be interested in recording over the air TV.