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[–] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 24 points 7 months ago (18 children)

Oh no.

Unfortunately I have a lot of experience with this: attaching permanent array members via USB is a bad idea. OP, if it's not too late, and assuming you haven't already and decided to double down on yolo, I'd recommend reading about the downsides of this approach. It is easy to find relevant discussions (and catastrophes) in r/zfs.

Thunderbolt enclosures are a bit more expensive, but they won't periodically fuck up your shit just because.

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 31 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the warning ⚠️🙏

This isn't my first rodeo with ZFS on USB. I've been running USB for a few years now. Recently I ran this particular box through a battery of tests and I'm reasonably confident that with my particular set of hardware it'll be fine. It passed everything I threw at it, once connected to a good port on my machine. But you're generally right and as you can see I discussed that in the testing thread, and I encountered some issues that I managed to solve. If you think I've missed something specific - let me know! 😊

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