Hello,
I am new here, so let me say Hi! I am a technician with some experience. I have some networking, and a good deal of hardware experience. I have been out of the field for a while, so I am just getting reacquainted with hardware and software. I built mass storage devices years ago, but the tech has changed, and the software has also. I have a question about a DAS solution I’m considering to increase storage resilience and capacity. Perhaps a NAS in the future, but I don’t have the resources to address the solution for now. Terramaster has some cost-effective devices that may meet my needs for the immediate future, so I have some questions I’d like to ask. I plan to use software RAID, the hardware RAID solutions don’t really interest me. I went that route before, after using software RAID for some time. I am looking at a nifty but curious box from Terramaster known as the D8 Hybrid. This word Hybrid is certainly scary, and this box is representative of the word Hybrid (danger, danger) for sure. There are a myriad of horror stories waiting to be told, but I am a glutton for punishment. The unit has 8 bays. 4 of the bays support NVMe and 4 are straight SATA. I want to consider using SCALE to create the RAID 4 8T,12T, or 16T HD’s, and also 4 4T NVMe’s for the storage. I am reviewing the chipset now, and I want to know if SCALE might have any spooky reactions to the ASMedia ASM1352R. It is a RAID chip, but I don’t plan to use it. Do any of you folks have experience with this chip? Will the chip hide my media? I have heard this may be possible, so I wanted to float the idea here to see if anyone has history with this chip. That is my question for now. The box is really new. I like the idea, but my thoughts I may be ahead of this box’s time. I would prefer to use TB4, the box currently only support USC C 3.2 (10g) currently. Thanks for your time! Will wonders never cease?
Hi and welcome to the forum
I have a D8 Hybrid and did some test back in November. I was able to see the disks in Truenas when using it in single mode.
It’s been on my todo list since then to do more tests but I never get to it.
Quote from my post in an earlier thread about the D series. (Do the TerraMaster "D" series (enclosures) play nice with TrueNAS? - #2 by etorix).
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, probably because of the usb connection. Scrub did not find any problem but the pool was unhealth and the replication stopped.
A single disk stripe pool was working better but again, very limited testing.
Hola! That sounds very good. It makes me optimistic. I have been reading and doing so much cross-referencing. Could you tell me if the chipset for USB contains ASMedia ASM235? It sounds like it may. I hope to acquire one soon, then I will need a mini PC front end for the Linux install unless Asahi makes some break throughs. If so I can try to test with my M1 Mac to see if and how it might run on the ARM if possible. I will have to wait a bit before either becomes feasible for me.
I don’t have it plugged so I cannot easily check right now but the techpowerup review mention the chips used.