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Subject: Re: USB-to-SATA and RAID
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:46:19 +0000
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On 23/01/18 22:23, Vojtěch Kletečka wrote:
> Although USBs are good for occasional connections of simple drives
> they have quite a strong tendency to wear out. This becomes a problem
> especially if you plan to connect raid often and means that wires
> might not connect or lose connection during the transition of data.

Something else I came across recently. Cooling in most enclosures ranges
from poor to non-existent. This leads to overheating drives as a matter
of course, and from that to failure.

(Personally, I have two enclosures that appear to have failed, and I
need to investigate to see if the drives themselves are dead. Two out of
two in the space of a few months is pretty bad going.)

Cheers,
Wol