I've made a few ad-hoc comments about Sabrent's 5-bay enclosures and recommending them.
That hasn't guite changed but I wanted to relate some observations to you guys.
I made comment about my troubles of making a 3-disk raid and a 2-disk raid within the 5-bay enclosure and it not working. Using mdadm.
I ended up making a 5-disk raid and that did work.
However, I never got performance above USB 2-ish speeds on it.
Today, messing around with it... I noticed that my device info (Debian on a beelink) puts 4 of those disks in one tree and one disk in another - in order of activitation, even) if I use all 5 disks.
I made a 4-disk array and the speed is at about 200mib/s rather than the 80mib/s for the 5-disk array.
So... This is where my knowledge breaks down...
Either Sabrent doe something funny with USB 3.1 when 5 disks are connected: doubtful.
BeeLink does something funny with ubs 3.1 passed 4 devices on the same connection: maybe
USB 3.1 is limited to 4 devices on the same connection: don't know.
Anyways. If you're having read/write rates lower than expected.... Might have something to do with this thingy I've observed.
Maybe someone else can come fill the gaps of knowledge I have.
Cheers everyone!