When you say " unique and unchanging device identification", don't external hard drives have unique serial numbers?
I run test of hard drive using software like seatools and crystal disk info and these hard drives have a lot of information that pulls up.
The software can't link some kind of unique identifying information on a hard drive as a particular disk in the parity setup?
For me, it would be easier to have a shelf filled with external hard drives then trying to piece together some kind of monster system that can fit so many drives then have to tear the external hard drive apart to connect them inside the PC/Server.
If you are using this Cache SSD, then it first writes to the cache drive then writes to the array.
Understand its not going to be enterprise level performance but for the guy who need archival and available of data, this may be the best bang for the buck but sadly is sound like this software does not support this kind of thing from what I am hearing.
Thanks.