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link to the cheap USB enclosure?

thanks

yeah i believe the port on the mac is thunderbolt underneath but usb-c interface so can you guys help with what device i can buy to connect the NVMe drive to and test on my mac laptop?

so a PCIe 4 to thunderbolt? i what about usb-c because i can test that on my mac laptop else windows PC is all usb2 & 3 any link to a product for these? as i will like to test used hard drive to see usage history and health thanks

yeah am trying to just check the disk health of the used one am buying from ebay and i dont want to install in my windows 10 PC, so looking for some external device that i can attach the NVMe drive to and test the SMART app to check the disk health you get what am trying to do? so anyone know...

Anyone know how to test the health of external NVMe drive like the one above that has PCIe 4 interface? I have a windows 10 PC i will like to run crystaldiskinfo on to check the health before installing in the server is there some device for things like this that makes it easy to connect to un...

damn i didnt know that was what that meant and the picture seemed really long do i need an adapter or something as the slot is vertical but the node is horizontal i may need to open the node and see it myself but am not close to the nodes to check i dont need any adapter or cable right? just...

the samsung drive is full length right? am not sure that server will take that did you look at the server internal pic and the drive pic i posted? will i need an adapter to connect the drive to the server or something? sorry am asking these noob questions, i like to be a noob to become super...

I am about to order a used version of this model MZPLJ1T6HBJR-00007(1.6TB) | SSD | Samsung Semiconductor USA to test out on one of the server nodes so the server has PCI3 full and half height riser slot so will this NMVe PCIe 4 x 8 work? nx360 M4 without PCIe Native Expansion Tray: One...

reool was in PROD with many paying users with a single postgresql database https://retool.com/blog/how-we-upgraded-postgresql-database so put that into perspective and dont let fear of complex infra and the hype of you gotta do things this way because everyone does, get to you simple can...

eventually yes but for now the simple single disk will do when money starts flowing in form many users then HA will be brought in and the complexity and cost will make sense then so yup i agree with you

what is your experience like rebuilding failed drives with mdadm? if want to go RAID, iprefer software raid as i have one less hardware to manage withhardware RAID and their battery craps i will look into RAID but for now i want to stay away from them and stick with single drives and have my...

currently my approach is to go single disk and no RAID and have incremental backup and maintenance plans to replace disks before they fail this is simpler to manage than RAID and cheaper also, so adding simpler plus cheaper is tough to ignore

software RAID or hardware RAID? which did you use for your setup?

the high end of 40K IOPS and 1500 MB/s is what am going with which is why am trying to use NVMe posted these so you get an idea of why i want to use NVMe drives