![]() It has pretty good reviews (and really thorough ones), though it does look like this model dates back to 2013. Oyen Digital Mobius 5-Bay FireWire 800, eSATA, USB 3.0 RAID Hard Drive Enclosure But the way this is talking it sounds like I would instead have two 10TB volumes? Is there a different model that does not have this limitation? I am not seeing much else on Amazon under "Mediasonic Proraid" that looks similar I wanted to use 4x 10TB hard drives, as a single 20TB volume with RAID 1. Raid Configuration info can be downloaded at Technical Specification (Application Guide) below It does not have Raid 5 feature nor ONE large volume of drive. This unit can only create TWO sets of Raid array of 2 drives each. Mediasonic Raid USB 3.1 Type C 4 Bay 3.5” SATA Hard Drive Enclosure with USB 3.1 Hub Feature – USB 3.1 Gen 2 10Gbps (HFR7-SU31CH) Thanks this sounds a lot closer to what I was looking for I am assuming that the "internal" here refers to the internal drives and "external" refers to other drives you would plug into it via usb External: Btrfs, ext4, ext3, FAT, NTFS, HFS+, exFAT.However it lists that internal storage only support ext4 and Btrfs, neither of which are gonna be macOS compatible (I do not actually plan to use this device as a Plex server, just an SMB share, but extra flexibility built-in to the storage device is always welcome)įor example, I was looking at the Synology-DS418play So, what is the best option for this? Obviously the device would need to support access via USB connection (how do you know if a NAS device supports this?), and would need to support RAID (does hardware vs software RAID matter on NAS devices?)Īfter not finding any good results on Newegg, etc., I started just going down this list here of Plex compatible devices, figuring that more compatibility = higher qualityīut that does not help much with my other issues of knowing if these devices will even work for this purpose attached to Mac Mini over USB However, I want this storage connected to the Mac Mini via USB. It seems like the only quality products are all NAS devices. ![]() All the search results on Newegg and similar for "RAID Enclosure" look terrible. However I am having trouble finding decent enclosures to use for this. I have a 10TB Western Digital external USB HDD that I want to migrate over to a RAID storage device (planning on 4x 10TB, RAID 1?). Mediasonic Raid USB C 3.1 4 Bay 3.5 SATA Hard Drive Enclosure with USB Hub 60W Power Delivery 3.0 4K HDMI Monitor Extender SDXC Reader Features. Mediasonic Raid USB 3.1 4 Bay 3.5 SATA Hard Drive Enclosure with USB 3.1 Hub Feature. I want to use a Mac Mini as a file server. Computers & Tablets Best Sellers Laptops Tablets Desktops Software Hard Drives. ![]()
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