Michael_P

As long as it's not molded, should be fine. I had one catch fire on me and found that guy's videos a week or so after. It had been in my desktop machine for years, then one night, poof. Don't hang too many drives off of one run to the PS, either. Voltage sag can be a problem and cause drives to drop out of the array.

Nice!

Can also punch down a molex or SATA connector to suit as needed

Change the name of the VM

You can test the link itself with iperf

Those drives are known for terrible write performance

Try a brain dead reset on it https://www.apc.com/us/en/faqs/FA156611/

Also, make sure you spread the load over multiple runs from the PS to the drives. Don't hang them all off of 1 line with splitters.

May need to re-calibrate it https://www.apc.com/us/en/faqs/FA284198/

Here's a post to get you started

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Depends on the controller, connections, cables - any communication problems and the drive will drop out of the array

I'd do the parity upgrade rebuild in maintenance mode just in case SHTF

Wouldn't explain the freezes, but worth investigating. I had a dodgy power button on my WMC box, it kept randomly (cleanly) shutting down in the middle of the night. Took a few months for me to figure out what was happening.

If you plan on using those for your unraid build, you're in for a world of pain. You need a proper enclosure and a HBA to address them. Using USB and/or eSATA multipliers isn't recommended as they'll just drop drives out of the array randomly if you get them all to show up at all.