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Trying to squeeze some more storage in my MiniPC. I have questions about these. These use hardward RAID with selectable modes (Individual/JBOD/RAID1/RAID2).

  1. If I use RAID 1 and one of the drives fails, will I know?

  2. If a drive fails, and a slap in a new one, will it internally begin repairing RAID 1 again?

  3. Can I use these as "individual" or JBOD and have 2 separate drives through the same connector, and use something like TrueNAS to software-RAID them?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

M.2 is a form factor. Under that form factor it can run the NVMe or the SATA protocol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Answered elsewhere in this thread. Yes, I'm aware, but the only real life use case is plugging in nvme drives

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There are m.2 sata drives. They have a different pin layout and everything. It depends on what you want out of the QoS of your system and what bottlenecks you have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, just then I still think it's the worst of both worlds. You still have a single point of failure, that raid controller on that device probably can't be ported anywhere else (at least most of the cheap controllers I've seen haven't been able to, most mobo raids I've been able to recover), and so if you don't have redundancy anyway, then a larger SSD is to me, the way to go. Honestly a single SSD and a nightly backup to an external would be how I'd do it if I was on a budget and only had one SATA port remaining.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah thats the problem with hardware raid in general.