I had bought one of those ssd+nvme hubs for my Mac Studio that just sits on top and matches the looks. It had 4tb in raid 1 for things like my photo library, sample instruments, llm models … basically anything bigger that I want quick access to without bogging down my internal drive.
But apparently the power/cooling on these things is generally pretty bad and it seems to have cooked the ssd. Everything’s backed up to the NAS so no issues there, and since only one drive failed raid 1 did its thing and my data is safe with no downtime.
My question is: is it worth getting a new (hopefully better) dual enclosure and rebuilding the raid 1, or should I just rawdog with a single drive and rely on my NAS as a backup?
Any quality nvme enclosures yall are using? Preferably with thunderbolt and SMART data pass through (some of my cheaper enclosures don’t report)