Trying to squeeze some more storage in my MiniPC. I have questions about these. These use hardward RAID with selectable modes (Individual/JBOD/RAID1/RAID2).
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If I use RAID 1 and one of the drives fails, will I know?
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If a drive fails, and a slap in a new one, will it internally begin repairing RAID 1 again?
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Can I use these as “individual” or JBOD and have 2 separate drives through the same connector, and use something like TrueNAS to software-RAID them?
If I’m not wrong these are not compatible with nvme? I remember I wanted to buy something like this but I couldn’t find PCIE to SATA, pretty sure I’m wrong but not in the mood to research
This one is SATA, yes.
What I mean is that I’m not sure there are adapters from PCIE the interface nvme drive use to SATA. If I’m not mistaken they don’t work with nvme 4.0
There is no NVMe in this device. It’s all SATA. The M.2 drives are SATA
Ahh, seems I have misunderstood what you said. I suppose it could work
No worries m8
IIR there are 2 versions, one using SATA protocol and the other using PCIe. The difference is keyed into cutouts between pins.
I’m not entirely sure what the benefit of this setup would be over 2 independent SSD’s since one drive will max out the connection speed and 2 can use 2 ports.
I’ve had a 2x SATA-based m.2 RAID card that plugged into PCIe for a boost in speed ages ago. It was fun, but I swapped it out for true PCIe based m.2.
I think their goal is to minimize space since it’s a mini-pc, so they don’t have 2 slots to spare but still want 2 drives? That’s how I interpreted it, at least.
The benefit is that I don’t have anywhere to connect 2 SSDs, much less M.2
Gotcha. I missed that one. :)