JBOD/RAID/eSATA what now?

"PowderHound" (PowderHound) 02/09/2019 at 11:47 • Filed to: None

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Have I enticed you nerds yet? I’m trying to find an enclosure to fit 4 1tb Serial ATA hard drives (and this where any of my knowledge ends). It’s just going to sit on my desk and connect to a laptop occasionally for backup and storage of old projects to not overload my measly 250gb laptop . I have done single HDD enclosures before and might even end up down that route with 4 single enclosures but it seems like it would be a nice storage solution to spend money on one of these multi bay enclosures. I have no idea the benefits here and I’m not doing video work, just graphic design so I don’t necessarily need an absolute ton of storage. Cossie for  Help?

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > PowderHound 02/09/2019 at 12:00

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How important is the data and how often do you need to access it?

HammerheadFistpunch > PowderHound 02/09/2019 at 12:03

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my 2 cents (and my current practice) - skip raids and just use a single disk for online work and use the other drives as backup. data loss is scarier to me that lack of efficiency. i create an online and offline disk and when they are full i shelf both copies and move on to 2 more drives. it's like raid but seems to be less error prone

PowderHound > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 02/09/2019 at 12:07

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Currently I’m not doing a lot of freelance work and use a work computer but I’m trying to set myself up for freelance and would like to have only current projects on my laptop and keep anything completed on the external drives.

Data would important enough that I would at least have a backup of everything and probably access it a couple times a week. Kind of working in hypotheticals here.

TheRealBicycleBuck > HammerheadFistpunch 02/09/2019 at 12:10

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Error prone? That depends on the raid configuration. Striping provides speed. Mirroring provides redundancy. Mirroring and striping gives you both. 

PowderHound > HammerheadFistpunch 02/09/2019 at 12:12

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That definitely is the way I’m leaning as buying another single enclosure is insanely cheaper than these 4 bay contraptions with their own interfaces that might just complicate things and be overkill for myself . 

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > PowderHound 02/09/2019 at 12:19

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It sounds like you might be looking for something like an NAS array.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > PowderHound 02/09/2019 at 12:19

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Consider getting something where you can use small, cheap drives. And use one for each customer.

PowderHound > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 02/09/2019 at 12:27

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That looks like it would be great! I’ll be looking in to those more.

PowderHound > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 02/09/2019 at 12:28

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That would work quite well and then just have a single large  drive to back everything up to.

HammerheadFistpunch > TheRealBicycleBuck 02/09/2019 at 12:55

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What I mean is that unless you have a dedicated raid hardware controller I’ve ALWAYS had trouble with the raid, no matter how its setup.

HammerheadFistpunch > PowderHound 02/09/2019 at 12:56

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yup, plus they are fast enough, I’m running multiple steams of 4k raw* video and its running realtime just fine.

8:1 compressed raw

Aremmes > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 02/09/2019 at 13:05

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This is exactly the way to go for the described use case. The data need to stay in one place while the laptop should be free to roam about. Hook up the NAS to the wires network, attach an access point (or connect the NAS to a Wi-Fi router), and the data become available to the laptop anywhere around the house. Some NAS appliances even support backing data up to Backblaze and other similar services, providing cheap insurance against data loss.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Aremmes 02/09/2019 at 13:09

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That’s what I thought. Configure it as a RAID 1 if you really want data redundancy, or go fancy and do a RAID 10 if you want really speedy redundancy. A cheap/free AWS backup would be an option, too. I’d probably pick up the WD red/red pro drives of the desired capacity and go from there.