nobillgates
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Hi Netizens,
I am planning to move away from Drobo 5N2 (5 bay, populated with 4 x 4TB HDDs of mixed heritage). Notwithstanding the fact it has performed extremely well in the years of service it has provided (contrary to popular experience), the parent companies are struggling so I am looking to go OSS and reuse the 4 HDDs in an external closure (above, or similar) connected to a NUC, such as:
RAM module (1 / 1)Transcend 4096 MB TS512MSK64W6H 1333 MT/s
Max RAM: 8GB
Hard drive: 59.63GB
Network card (1 / 2)Intel Corporation 82583V Gigabit Network Connection
Network card (2 / 2)Intel Corporation 82583V Gigabit Network Connection
The above NUC has only USB 2.0 but I do have another that has USB 3.0, that I could repurpose at a pinch, if the differences between 2.0 and 3.0 are significant.
As a Proof Of Concept (POC) I am currently testing in a VM of similar spec (QEMU backend to UTM on MacOS 12.6) to estimate performance and any limitations.
I have seen some (old) posts here and elsewhere decrying the severe idiosyncrasies of USB but was hoping this has changed with more recent incarnations of the technology and TrueNAS support and tolerance of these.
So far, the POC works reasonably well, but may be unrealistic, given most of the [hardware] features are emulated in software.
Any advice gratefully received.
MTIA
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I am planning to move away from Drobo 5N2 (5 bay, populated with 4 x 4TB HDDs of mixed heritage). Notwithstanding the fact it has performed extremely well in the years of service it has provided (contrary to popular experience), the parent companies are struggling so I am looking to go OSS and reuse the 4 HDDs in an external closure (above, or similar) connected to a NUC, such as:
Hardware information
Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N2930 @ 1.83GHzRAM module (1 / 1)Transcend 4096 MB TS512MSK64W6H 1333 MT/s
Max RAM: 8GB
Hard drive: 59.63GB
Network card (1 / 2)Intel Corporation 82583V Gigabit Network Connection
Network card (2 / 2)Intel Corporation 82583V Gigabit Network Connection
The above NUC has only USB 2.0 but I do have another that has USB 3.0, that I could repurpose at a pinch, if the differences between 2.0 and 3.0 are significant.
As a Proof Of Concept (POC) I am currently testing in a VM of similar spec (QEMU backend to UTM on MacOS 12.6) to estimate performance and any limitations.
I have seen some (old) posts here and elsewhere decrying the severe idiosyncrasies of USB but was hoping this has changed with more recent incarnations of the technology and TrueNAS support and tolerance of these.
So far, the POC works reasonably well, but may be unrealistic, given most of the [hardware] features are emulated in software.
Any advice gratefully received.
MTIA
;-}