Question: RAID cabinet for home use
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From: Bill Hudacek <hidden>
Date: 2021-06-21 21:11:13
My 2021 Sans Digital TR5UT+B held 5 SATA disks. I had an eSATA connection to the host box. It went belly-up a few weeks ago. After some careful searching, a good replacement seemed to be the Oyen Digital Mobius 3R5-EB3-M. Found it for about $300USD. It was plug-and-play replace. Drives were being addressed by UUID in Fedora so no issues at all. It came right up. However, smart reporting looks horrible even compared to the TR5UT+B (which had its own issues). Here's what the TR5UT+B (old cabinet) reported for one disk in the unit (just the header section of smartctl -a): === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Red Device Model: WDC WD20EFRX-68EUZN0 Serial Number: WD-WCC4M6HX8XCR Firmware Version: 0957 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] Here's what the Mobius reports now for the same disk: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: Mobius DISK1 Serial Number: WD-WCC4M6HX8XCR Firmware Version: 0962 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] The disk model is gone. The firmware version is wrong (cabinet instead of disk?!). I imagine firmware updates are impossible here. The rest of it is unimpressive, too. No SCT (TLER) at all - not just ERC, but SCT Status, SCT Feature Control, SCT Data Table are all missing too. All the disks in the cabinet are WD20EFRX-68EUZN0. So I believe they have SCT/TLER. What RAID cabinets would be a better alternative? I have 5 drives but an 8-bay cabinet would work too. Obviously, SMART pass-through would be 'nice'. But so would SCT (ERC). -- Kind Regards, Bill Hudacek IT Architect Currently Un-Attached, free & independent