[terramaster-d4-enclosure] I know that drive enclosures are usually frowned upon, due to performance issues, supplying only a single USB cable to feed multiple drives, and the risk of serial number collision. Has anyone had any positive experience using the TerraMaster enclosures, [1] such as this …

Not answering your question, but QNAP TL-D400S and D800S SATA enclosures should play nice with ZFS: [image] QNAP TL-D400S Review 4-Bay SATA JBOD DAS Enclosure In our review of the QNAP TL-D400S, we see how this 4-bay SATA JBOD/ DAS enclosure works, and some of the cool features it has bu…

Doesn’t that require an SFF port on the computer? (Rather than USB-A or USB-C.)

Indeed, it requires a HBA with external ports (and ships with a custom SATA controller card with a SFF-8088). That’s how it fits so well for ZFS. As for the TerraMaster D is boils down to this question: What’s between the single USB port and the 4 SATA drives?

I did some test initial testing with a D8 Hybrid for that scenario of secondary backup. It was on a virtualized Truenas Electric Eel under Proxmox. If I remember correctly, I was able to see the drive serial numbers. I got some problem with a 3x4TB raidz1 pool with some possible corruption, probab…

Just my hapenny worth here. FYI I bought a TERRAMASTER D4-320, and put in 4 x 4Tb WD Red in it, and TrueNAS and have been running TrueNAS Scale 25.04 on it since before it released. It has been totally reliable. TrueNAS recognizes individual disks. SMART all works as individual disks. I’ve bee…

@StuPo - I assume you’ve been running the Terramaster D4-320 for a while now. I wonder if you have any update on the reliability or performance to share. I’m about to set up a similar config and would be interested in any new info you may have. I’ve considered running this under Proxmox passing i…

I just bought one and it plays perfectly. I am running on 25.10 RC1 … The only thing that does not show in the UI reports are temperature and SMART info, but from the command line you get everything so the chip let the smart info pass through. See … I have 3x20TB in a Raidz1 and a seperate 18TB in …

Do they report unique serial #’s?

Yes :slight_smile: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], ST20000NM007D-3DJ103, S/N:ZVT5HS4F, WWN:5-000c50-0e5c9677e, FW:SN01, 20.0 TB Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], not found in smartd database 7.3/5528. Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to “monitor” list. Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], state read from /var/…

Seems remarkably well behaved. I reviewed the linked video - it looks like they’re doing a USB hub and four individual ASMedia ASM235CM bridge chips rather than a port multiplier. I do have some mild concerns about heat dissipation of the individual chips (both USB hub and ASMedia bridge) under su…

Do the TerraMaster "D" series (enclosures) play nice with TrueNAS?

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etorix November 19, 2024, 3:43pm 2

Not answering your question, but QNAP TL-D400S and D800S SATA enclosures should play nice with ZFS:

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Do the TerraMaster "D" series (enclosures) play nice with TrueNAS?

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