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[Manfred]

I want to consolidate my Workstation with my Media Server and I want to reuse my 46 TB WD Red's.

I can use External USB 3.2 Gen 2 DAS :
https://www.terra-master.com/de/products/homesoho-das/d6-320.html

or internal SATA disks in a tower case.

Any opinions, recommendations?

[eve]

I want to consolidate my Workstation with my Media Server and I want to reuse my 46 TB WD Red's.

I can use External USB 3.2 Gen 2 DAS :
https://www.terra-master.com/de/products/homesoho-das/d6-320.html

or internal SATA disks in a tower case.

Any opinions, recommendations?

I've had pretty crappy experiences with pooled, external USB storage being run 24/7. Depending on how your data is setup, and how much access it gets, you may have a bad time. Essentially, maybe a decade ago I let my Windows machine balloon to like 20+ external disks. For the most part it'll work but if you're hitting a bunch of drives at once, I noticed a greater chance of a drive randomly disconnecting despite not moving and the drives themselves being perfectly fine hardware wise. Go internal, 46TB is not a ridiculous amount of data. If it's 3TB drives or something, yeah that's going to be a bit of a hassle.


Why would you consolidate though? There's huge sanity / uptime benefits from keeping the two separate. My Workstation has very little data on it, like 6TB of SSDs and a set of spinning disks for cache. Everything else, project files, assets, media etc are on servers.

[JimH]

Don't use USB drives if you can avoid it.

[Manfred]

Thank you - clear statement - I like this!

If it's 3TB drives or something, yeah that's going to be a bit of a hassle.

(46TB = 3 x 10 TB +2 x 8 TB)

[Manfred]

Why would you consolidate though?

I had my media server in a separate room running headless for 5 years. Since this year IPMI through Internet Explorer (EoL) does not work any more (ASUS P10S-I board). The new one P12R-I does not support Windows 11 only Windows Server. So I had moved my Media Server into my Home Office and connect it through VGA to a second small Monitor for Admin. So I must find a new solution.

Every day I look at it:

Why could it be not one computer?

[jmone]

I stopped using an external drive enclosure years ago.  Got an 8 HDD Bay base (no longer made), and added a SAS card in IT Mode.  Job done.