What is Reddit's opinion of Sabrent USB 3.2 5-Bay 3.5" SATA Hard Drive Tray-Less Docking Station (DS-SC5B)?

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Was thinking of doing the same myself recently and have this on my wishlist. Read good reviews but they could be paid shills, of course. I like the sleek look and individual power buttons, and also that it doesn't do any fancy, possibly unreliable raid in hardware. I have drivepool.

If you're looking for something that fits on your desk, this 5-bay DAS from Sabrent would be my choice. It's USB 3.2 gen1 (I think it's called) - anyway, it's 10 Gbps.

I also have a 20 gpbs USB C port that I'd love to utilize but the only thing I've found at that speed is an external nvme drive enclosure.

I like the power draw theory. That doesn't account for why the disks show up fine in the CLI. But maybe that's an issue with under-powering.

It has its own power supply. And it's well engineered. Here is the Device. I would be surprised if they didn't design it well enough to run 5 drives and the fan.

This is not an endorsement of course because it's not exactly working. I thought someone might have used a disk array attached through USB to Proxmox and have insight into not losing connection.

Sabrent USB 3.2 5-Bay 3.5" SATA... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y4F5SCK?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

I have a lot of these that I need to sell because my main farm is using enterprise JBOD now.

Drives do not disconnect or disappear requiring power cycles with these

I don't think there is. As far as I can tell even if you had a Raid, you can't span a raid across the expansion bays. Just so you know I don't have any experience with the expansion units.

If its just jbod just save the money and buy something like a Sabrent 5 drive bay with usb 3.1 gen 2 like this.

Sabrent 5 bay usb 3.2

I have an orico 5 bay that has a magnetic top, haven't had issues with it ejecting, however I'm running on unRAID.

From what I can tell this sabrent 5 bay seems the best if you're only looking for usb connectivity especially since this model allows daisy chaining.

Sabrent USB 3.2 5-Bay 3.5" SATA Hard Drive Tray-Less Docking Station (DS-SC5B) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y4F5SCK/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_GAK8A1T8NDMTNS5CA0HK?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

There are easy/cheaper ways to accumulate data storage.

You can get a WD easystore which are ok. I dont like seeing sata cords in my computer, so im m.2 all the way, so you can hide this little box behind your tower or whatever..

Alternatively if you have drives laying about (like I do!) You can buy one of these

The cheaper ones are way cheaper but dont look as nice as that one does.

So I didn't want to deal with a NAS but I also didn't want to lose my stuff if my drives failed. I ripped my plex library 2x and I will never do it again. I shucked my HD's and put it in this bay and I use Backblaze for backups off site. I have about 40-50 tb of drives (got them on deep sale for Black Friday) but I've only filled like 35 tb give or take. I kept all my rips at full quality so I know if I converted or found content ummmm elsewhere files would be much smaller and space would go a lot further.

Could I use ZFS if I simply had a DAS (Like This One) and a simple Linux/FreeNAS box? ZFS sounds enticing, but I hardly know anything about it or how to use/implement it.

I like this DAS because of its individual on/off switches and ventilation.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y4F5SCK/ref=emc\_b\_5\_t?th=1

>QNAP TL-D800C

I'm curious about the limitations myself... Is it the specs for MAC mini M1 or Thunderbolt 3/4 protocol that limit the daisy chaining up to 5x Thunderbolt devices (like Sabrent 5-bay) per each port?

Via direct connect (to back of MAC m1 mini), I'm curious have you attempted adding 5x then the remaining 3x JBODs on the other Thunderbolt port via daisy-chain?

OR

Via indirect connect (3rd party hub in the middle), I'm wondering if anyone has tested the CalDigit Thunderbolt 4 Element Hub... then connecting 3 rows of 5x JBODs daisy-chained?

I currently only have 1 of the 3 Thunderbolt options daisy-chained out 5x via the CalDigit hub plus 5 Sabrent 5-bays.

5 6tb WD Blue - WD60EZAZ

The bay is a Sabrent

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Y4F5SCK?psc=1

Thank you!

Sabrent USB 3.2 5-Bay 3.5" SATA Hard Drive Tray-Less Docking Station (DS-SC5B) Amazon

I've been looking at this 5 bay external USB 3.2 enclosure. It's 10 gbps over usb C which is important to me.

> I have 25tb of external hard drives that I am converting to a RAID array.

You have got this backwards. The 25TB of external drives you have currently are your backup. You should be building your RAID out of fresh drives.

I suggest checking out this page to try and find cost efficient disks; https://diskprices.com/

Get new HDD's, and stick them in some kind of enclosure, and make your RAID out of that.

If you already have 25TB of data, then I might suggest four 18TB drives in a RAID1 configuration. Those are going for ~$400 each right now so it would be $1200 in disks + $300 for the enclosure.

Have you looked at backblaze? $6/month and it's awesome. I use a Sabrent 5 bay plus backblaze and it's been excellent for me so far.