January 12, 20188 yr I'm going to be out of SATA slots soon with no spare PCIe either. I could add usb drives via unassigned drives, but I'm curious if anyone has successfully added usb drives to the array? With usb 3.0/3.1 the speed is sufficient for hdds.
January 12, 20188 yr Avoid that, while it works you can have performance issues and much more importantly, USB is very bad at error handling, for best results use SAS/SATA only.
January 12, 20188 yr Author Thanks @johnnie.black - I understand the guidance is 'no', but I was wondering if anyone has actually tried and how it went
January 19, 20188 yr I did it, but the use was strictly to setup a USB based SSD to host my dockers for Serviio and minidlna. No issues other than I had a hard time getting all the settings for Serviio mapped to the right device - that kept two drives spun up for a while but that was sorted in December and since then - no drives spinning - Serviio works fine, serves my smart TVs and a couple of Rokus with content. Nothing wrong with Serviio - I just did some dumb things while setting the dockers up. I did set the SSD to automount. Also, my system is fairly static - just has 13.5 TB of storage currently and all my drives are pretty full. I *DO* understand your dilemma with being maxed on SATA ports - been there for a year.
January 19, 20188 yr Author 4 hours ago, Unqualified Spectator said: I did it, but the use was strictly to setup a USB based SSD to host my dockers for Serviio and minidlna. No issues other than I had a hard time getting all the settings for Serviio mapped to the right device - that kept two drives spun up for a while but that was sorted in December and since then - no drives spinning - Serviio works fine, serves my smart TVs and a couple of Rokus with content. Nothing wrong with Serviio - I just did some dumb things while setting the dockers up. I did set the SSD to automount. Also, my system is fairly static - just has 13.5 TB of storage currently and all my drives are pretty full. I *DO* understand your dilemma with being maxed on SATA ports - been there for a year. Thanks - I'm going to go UD as well. I'll just keep data on there that isn't critical to be parity protected and I'll look to including it in a backup somewhere. What hardware do you have?
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