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Trying to squeeze some more storage in my MiniPC. I have questions about these. These use hardward RAID with selectable modes (Individual/JBOD/RAID1/RAID2).
If I use RAID 1 and one of the drives fails, will I know?
If a drive fails, and a slap in a new one, will it internally begin repairing RAID 1 again?
Can I use these as "individual" or JBOD and have 2 separate drives through the same connector, and use something like TrueNAS to software-RAID them?
Just as an uninvolved third party, I'm trying to figure out how NVMe entered this response to a question about a SATA to SATA form factor converter
Because M.2 equals NVMe in some people’s minds, I suppose
My desktop has a wireless card in an m.2 slot (as do those of my wife and both children), one of my laptops has a SATA m.2 as its only drive because it only has a SATA m.2 slot, another laptop has a SATA m.2 as the scratch drive because it has one NVMe and one SATA, and "the only things you plug into an m.2 slot right now are nvme drives" is such a wild take that I'm baffled as to where it came from
Because there's no redundancy.
Which is fair, I suppose, if you really only have one SATA port left. Then a RAID 1 through that device might work well enough. Wouldn’t be my first choice though… and definitely not for RAID 0. Not that RAID 0 should be anyone’s first choice, nowadays.
Just making the best with what I've got.
Yes. There is. Unless the controller decides before it dies to wipe the disks for some reason?
And like I said to the other person, "No."
No one is talking about backups.
I don't have any way to add them.
But you adding nvmes on the same slot?
No.
What are we seeing here?
This is a SATA/M.2 to SATA/2.5" adapter. No NVMe.
M.2 is a form factor. Under that form factor it can run the NVMe or the SATA protocol.