Recommendations for a RAID 0 enclosure

[amrogers3]

I have three 4TB drives I want to combine into a 12TB using RAID 0. This is not for storing mission critical data so if a drive fails, no big deal.

I have been researching but can't seem to find a RAID 0 enclosure so trying to find a less expensive option than Synology/QNAP/etc.

Just looking for a cheap RAID 0 enclosure

 

[arestavo]

I can't remember seeing any (not that there aren't). Although, if you're not going NAS you could use something like a Terramaster DAS enclosure and stripe the drives in windows.

But why not just use JBOD?

 

[mwroobel]

Can you do it, sure. Will it be safe/useful for anything but a scratch disk, probably not. If you do decide to go that direction, there are relatively cheap (read crap) enclosures from Mediasonic, Yotta, ********** and a hundred other chinesium enclosures. Do yourself a favor, get a Synology 4 bay, but another drive and use some kind of parity for increased uptime (or a better chance of reconstituting your data with a new drive.) SHR1 with 3 data and 1 parity drive!

Hmmm, the ******** that the forum software is hiding is O*R*I*C*O

 

[daglesj]

As alluded to already. 4 bay, buy another 4TB and RAID 10, faster and safer but thats just me.

 

[philb2]

Hmmm, the ******** that the forum software is hiding is O*R*I*C*O

I say this. "Friends don't let friends buy that very vendor." OTOH I highly recommend anything by Anker.

 

[vxspiritxv]

O*R*I*C*O is crap hardware. Bought their 8 bay DAS; Power supply couldn't start up the 8th drive (WD purples), then found that couldn't access more than 2 drives at once. IO would just stall on other drives till request completes. Yottamaster looks to have what you want, no idea about their quality tho. https://yottamaster.com/products/yottamaster-4-bay-hard-drive-enclosure-with-cooling-fan

 

[mwroobel]

As alluded to already. 4 bay, buy another 4TB and RAID 10, faster and safer but thats just me.

If he goes the way I suggested with a fourth drive (and a Synology) his best option would be either btrfs with RAID 6 or with SHR2. This way ANY two drives can fail and maintain uptime. In a traditional R10 array 2 drives can fail, but ONLY if it the right 2 drives. If both of a mirrored pair of drives in a R10 fail your array is toast. On an externally attached NAS, with a single or at most a few users on a gigabit connection you will likely see little to no appreciable performance difference between R10 an R6 in all but the most granular tasks.

 

[philb2]

O*R*I*C*O is crap hardware.

Same for their support.

 

[Zepher]

I bought a couple of these a few years back but used the drives as individual drives,
only thing I didn't care for is the power cable on the side of the chassis.

 

[daglesj]

At least it has a power button on the front!