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Can you turn multiple internal hard drives into one external drive?
I wonder how I should encapsulate a bunch of old, internal SATA drives in a single black-box (literally) whose output would be a single USB plug. It would present itself as a single drive with the ...
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How future proof is the 10TB disk size compared to a 8TB disk size?
I want to put two 8TB or 10TB hard drives as a RAID6 (or SHR1) array in my Synology NAS. At the moment the price per TB is the same. So from that perspective both are similarly fine.
However, in that ...
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External Enclosure for 2 SAS HDDs
I picked up a couple SAS HDDs that I would like to place in an external enclosure. However, I am struggling to find any that supports SAS HDDs. Does this exist? Could you please recommend any? I would ...
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Does exist a SD card disk array? [closed]
I need a disk array like those which we can just add a new hard disk but using sd cards rather than disk. Does it exist?
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Should I choose 5400rpm or 7200rpm hdds for setup RAID 1 on B450 AMD Chipset board
I have ASUS ROG STRIX B450-F which uses the AMD B450 chipset, I plan on adding 2 SATA drives in a RAID 1 configuration and am trying to determine if there is any advantage to using 7200rpm drives.
I ...
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Slicing 100GB raster datasets
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I'm working with huge brain imaging raster data with four dimensions (x,y,z,t). The dimension sizes are respectively ~1000, ~600, ~20, ~3000 with data stored as uint16, which makes me ~100GB ...
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What HDD configuration is best for handling rapid read/writes of small files?
I am running a linux system with an app that constantly reads/writes many small files (e.g close to zero bytes) to a point where 1000-4000 files read/written each minute causing disk innodes close to ...
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I need a NAS solution with conflicting requirements
I have to buy a NAS storage, with a set of simultaneous opposite requirements. In particular, high speed, lots of space and small budget.
Can I do something like:
- Use a NAS with four bays, two for ...
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Fast and cheap RAID HDD?
Given that I suspect my PC to have a suicidal behavior, I'm looking for a RAID HDD to save my data safely. I have very old documents that I don't wanna lose.
What are the best solutions for this? Buy ...
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SSD and HDD Internal Raid system compatible with external clone docking station
I'm searching for a good internal raid system for two SSDs and one for two HDDs. The housing of the SSDs and HDDs should be compatible with an external docking station, which I want to use for Backups....
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What options are available for cheap NAS devices that allows to put two hard drives in RAID 1?
I want to create a private cloud on my home, and for this I want to know a good NAS device that performs the following:
Put two or more hard drives on RAID 1.
As cheap as possible.
Allow to install ...
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