Recent content by vq12

I understand the risks with raid 1. My setup is a 4 bay enclosure connected via a single usb. After some additional research I do wonder if I would have been better off with an enclosure that uses individual sata per drive... So at this point I'm trying to decide my best course of action- use...

Raid 1 because I need redundancy. 2x because first raid was a small test, 250gb next raid would be 12tb. Why are there burps over usb but not sata? If I switch to single sata on enclosure and add a sata hat to pi will my raid be less failure-prone? Thanks

I have a 4 bay enclosure attached via usb to a raspberry pi. I have 2 drives in raid 1, handled by mdadm on the pi. I was going to add 2 new drives in a second raid1 but I found out that it is not advised to do raid over usb. Why is this? So if I switch my enclosure from usb to sata and use a...