[SOLVED] Hooking up 6 SSHD

[Sagenhaft]

So I got 6 500GB SSHD and I would like to do RAID 0 but I can't figure out the best way to connect them all together and then to my computer any suggestions.

 

[USAFRet]

So I got 6 500GB SSHD and I would like to do RAID 0 but I can't figure out the best way to connect them all together and then to my computer any suggestions.

You don't.

1. SSHD are not recommended in any RAID situation.
2. A real SSD handily beats those in any RAID situation.
3. 6x 500GB drives in a RAID 0 is an accident waiting to happen.

What are you hoping to get out of this configuration?

But...all you need is a RAID controller card.

 

[Sagenhaft]

You don't.

1. SSHD are not recommended in any RAID situation.
2. A real SSD handily beats those in any RAID situation.
3. 6x 500GB drives in a RAID 0 is an accident waiting to happen.

What are you hoping to get out of this configuration?

But...all you need is a RAID controller card.

Ok thats good to know but I would like this to be external in the fact that I can't fit any in my tower so having them connected via USB would be the game plan.

 

[USAFRet]

Ok thats good to know but I would like this to be external in the fact that I can't fit any in my tower so having them connected via USB would be the game plan.

That's an even worse situation for a RAID 0.
Any theoretical "speed" thing is negated by the USB interface.

What do you plan to use these drives for?



One of these:
https://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-ProRaid-H8R2-SU3S2-External-Enclosure/dp/B005GYDMYQ

Or two of these:
https://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-SATA-Hard-Drive-Enclosure/dp/B078YNYG6T

https://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-SATA-Hard-Drive-Enclosure/dp/B078YQHWYW

 

[Sagenhaft]

That's an even worse situation for a RAID 0.
Any theoretical "speed" thing is negated by the USB interface.

What do you plan to use these drives for?



One of these:
https://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-ProRaid-H8R2-SU3S2-External-Enclosure/dp/B005GYDMYQ

Or two of these:
https://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-SATA-Hard-Drive-Enclosure/dp/B078YNYG6T

https://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-SATA-Hard-Drive-Enclosure/dp/B078YQHWYW

It's just for storage I wont be pulling stuff off of it everyday.

 

[TJ Hooker]

So why do you want RAID again?

 

[USAFRet]

It's just for storage I wont be pulling stuff off of it everyday.

6x 500GB = 3TB.
The 8 bay enclosure above, or two of the 4-bay ones is $200.

or

A single USB drive.
8TB - $140
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B07CQJBSQL

5TB - $110
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Backup-External-Drive-Portable/dp/B07MY44VNM

4TB - $92
https://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Advance-Portable-External-HDTC940XW3CA/dp/B07KQX5VHY


Make your life much much simpler.

 

[Azzyasi]

500GB hdds are old stuff. Keep them to equip old computers for donations or just donate them to someone that assembles old computers to be used by needy students or in other situations, or sell them for whatever you get for them.
So their purpose in this day and age is to equip an old system that still works like old lga755 and others, that can still work for small tasks and need a working hdd in order to work.

Frankly those hdds are outperformed by any modern drive that is cheap and will have more capacity combined than those 6 hdds. Also an nvme ssd will sweep floors with most (read "any") mechanical hdd raid combo.

Also being sshd will make them adequate as a standalone in an older system as main hdd, and work poorly for storage negating the ssd part of it.
And raid is different. You don't want or need raid 0. Also RAID 0 on a hybrid SSD and HDD is an accident waiting to happen (the internal balance between the ssd part and hdd part is complicated as is.. adding raid0 in the mix is troublesome)
You can make an enclosure for RAID 1 and pair two of them and you will have a relible 500G worth of data safely stored. But if it's just about redundancy than just copy pasting onto 2 hdds one at a time and storing them in a drawer in antistatic bag is better option.

If I had them, i'd keep them in a drawer and pop one of them from time to time to store other data or organize stuff in a hotswap tray on the main PC. This is my setup with a 3hdd bay with hotswap trays and a drawer full of old hdd's that hold some information in organized fashion. (pictures and important stuff are duplicated from my main hdd in use from time to time and the unused hdd is just as a backup).

 

[geofelt]

What is your objective?
If you need 3tb for backup, then buy an external 3tb HDD.

If you need a backup, do not use old 500gb hard drives, and particularly not 6 of them in raid-0
That increases the risk of failure by 6x.

If you are looking to raid-0 for sequential read speeds, you are not going to get it with an external usb connection.

If you simply want to make use of the 6 500gb drives you have, put them on sale on ebay to get rid of them.

 

[popatim]

Seagate 8tb usb3 is like $120 currently.
Found it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D5V2ZXD/

othewise, do you have an old pc with 6 sata ports laying around? turn it into a NAS with FreeNas!

 

[fzabkar]

What about configuring 4 of the drives as a 1TB RAID 10, or 6 drives as a 1.5TB RAID 10? Then you would have both speed and redundancy.

 

[USAFRet]

What about configuring 4 of the drives as a 1TB RAID 10, or 6 drives as a 1.5TB RAID 10? Then you would have both speed and redundancy.

1. SSHD
2. "It's just for storage I wont be pulling stuff off of it everyday. "

Wrong drives and wrong use case for RAID of any type.