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sgt 31 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, Q...

My homelab "NAS" is unfortunately just a few USB based external disk enclosures, externally powered. Is there no way of making these reliable ? Every so often (maybe once a month) I get timeout errors or some kind of issues with at least one of the disks.

a96 29 days ago | [–]

Apart from better (luck with) enclosures, cables, and power, probably not. USB-SATA bridges are notoriously flaky.

turpentine 29 days ago | [–]

Try a different host machine to rule out it being a DAS enclosure.

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