I was thinking on buying a 2-4 bay HDD powered enclosure as a NAS for my mini pc, since I already have that, and buying or building a full-fledged diy NAS seems a bit expensive.

I want to hear some opinions from you guys, since it seems using this method is a mixed area from the selfhosted pros. I would be hoping that by using a powered enclosure, that would alleviate or solve the USB port overcharging issue, which have appeared in my mini pc when trying out an external HDD with a normal sata to usb converter.

Did you have any experiences with a setup like this one?

  • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Have you had data loss occurences in these bay enclosures? Some other commenters have said, that using it as a primary storage is really risky because some crappy controllers could ruin the drives’s data for example.

    • Shimitar@feddit.itEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Yes there is someone talking everybody down about USB enclosures*.

      Maybe he got burned or something…

      Can say never had an issue and I replaced many motherboards over 20 years, and also many enclosures.

      Don’t go too cheap, but don’t worry too much. I highly recommend a raid setup anyway. And always do backups, bit this is unrelated to USB specifically

      • not referring to op or the other comment specifically, just noticed in general somebody always negative about USB on all posts lime this.
    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I have not, but I also run it as a RAIDZ, so if I did have issues with one, the parity should cover it. That being said it is a backup for me.