Multi drive USB 3 enclosures

[Soaringquasar]

Hi
Quick question: in a multibay USB3 enclosure, are the drives independently addressable?
I would like to run 3 drives with ZFS from my raspberry pi 4.
any suggestions on which enclosure is worth it? Obviously it would require external power.

thanks

 

[Phence]

It depends, look out if the one you find does JBOD. Secondly check with the OS you are using supports that driver/chip on that enclosure, so that you don't need to compile the OS again.

Don't think ZFS on a Pi is a good idea, cause of IO throughput, lack of ECC, lack of RAM capacity etc. What is your intended setup? I like the idea, I just think it won't work well unfortunately.

 

[Soaringquasar]

It depends, look out if the one you find does JBOD. Secondly check with the OS you are using supports that driver/chip on that enclosure, so that you don't need to compile the OS again.

Don't think ZFS on a Pi is a good idea, cause of IO throughput, lack of ECC, lack of RAM capacity etc. What is your intended setup? I like the idea, I just think it won't work well unfortunately.

Ok cool. Will check for JBOD

I want a storage solution like freenas, used to run ZFS on a HP microserver over 3 3TB drives. That solution became too slow and power hungry. I need a bit of space plus the redundancy of losing a drive without losing data. The pi currently great running pihole + plex, but the timemachine on the network does not have the redundancy I want for family photos etc.
And the pi4 is great!!