My Unraid server was running on an old Dell XPS 9100. I moved the drives to 5 bay external hard drive enclosure then connected that to my MSI GT80 titan laptop. I can see the drives in the unraid gui but instead of seeing the drives like it did before it sees them as a usb 3 connection because of the enclosure. Is there a way to use them without loosing anything or will I have to move it all back to my dell and back it up somewhere and start over?

 

this is how it saw the drive in the dell ST14000NM001G-2KJ103_ZLW20ZA4 - 14.0 TB

this is how it sees it now External_USB3.0_DISK00_2170331000C3-0:0 - 14TB(sda)

under the device area it says wrong for all of them.

Edited November 16, 20232 yr by forsaken1

USB for array disks is not recommended, for many reasons, identification is only one. More critical, USB connections are notorious for random disconnects, which will cause drives to be disabled, and lack of SMART data, so you don't have a good indication of disk health.

well that sucks. thanks for the info though. I'll put it back in the dell and return that enclosure and wait until I can get some actual server hardware.

Edited November 16, 20232 yr by forsaken1

I've seen occasional reports that certain USB enclosures do provide proper naming and SMART passthrough, but I don't know of any way to find that out other than either direct experimentation, or trusted first hand reports, unfortunately online vendors have a nasty habit of changing hardware without updating descriptions, so even with a report that a certain model works properly, there is no guarantee that same model ordered now will be the same.

10 minutes ago, JonathanM said:

I've seen occasional reports that certain USB enclosures do provide proper naming and SMART passthrough, but I don't know of any way to find that out other than either direct experimentation, or trusted first hand reports, unfortunately online vendors have a nasty habit of changing hardware without updating descriptions, so even with a report that a certain model works properly, there is no guarantee that same model ordered now will be the same.

well we already saw that this one doesn't report correctly so not point in fighting with it. I'll just go back to my old setup until I can actually upgrade. Old setup is up an running again already.

 

this is what I grabbed from amazon 

ORICO 5 Bay 3.5 Inch Hard Drive Enclosure USB C Magnetic Tool-Free External HDD Enclosure Supports UASP with 12V/6.5A Power Adapter for Family Storage Expansion Up to 90TB(5x18) - DS500C3

Edited November 16, 20232 yr by forsaken1