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  • That’s why you should always use them as jbod and setup Linux software raid (or zfs raid? Not familiar) directly.

    Never go without a raid… Not a good idea in any case.

    As for heat, I used jbod enclosures with fan, anything with more than 2 drives should have one, or don’t bother.

    I wouldn’t go with single drive enclosures (even if I did for 10 years) as better not to cheap out on this matter. A 4 x 10€ cheap enclosure might be tempting, but shilling out 100€ for a nice actively cooled 4-disk jbod is a much better choice. Then go sw raid on top of it.


  • Yes there is someone talking everybody down about USB enclosures*.

    Maybe he got burned or something…

    Can say never had an issue and I replaced many motherboards over 20 years, and also many enclosures.

    Don’t go too cheap, but don’t worry too much. I highly recommend a raid setup anyway. And always do backups, bit this is unrelated to USB specifically

    • not referring to op or the other comment specifically, just noticed in general somebody always negative about USB on all posts lime this.

  • I used USB enclosures for my RAIDs for over 20 years. The turning point has been usb3 and then usb-c even better, but I found really no difference as in the bottleneck where the mechanical drives.

    Moved to an all internal sata setup a few months back because I upgraded the space and moved to a desktop form factor.

    Can still recommend the USB approach tough.

    BUY A QUALITY EBCLOSURE.

    I always used Linux software raid, but purchased a 4 slots USB raid/jbod enclosure to keep the number of used USB ports down.

    I never ever had issues with the setup, but I purchased a known-brand enclosure, one with also e-SATA, which unfortunately was/is more a fad than even been really used.