Ok heres the situation.
I presently have a 70tb data load and growing.
Presently I am running a PCIE RAID controller and 8 10tb platter drives.
As you can imagine building and growing this array from machine to machine is getting tricky.
I am looking for an external DAS solution that can be more portable, especially as I am staring down the barrel of needing to make some upgrades as Win11 refuses to allow for the use of the 1st gen threadripper chips.
My limitations are as follows:
Needs hardware RAID ( I simply dont like software raid and this complicates portability)
Must register to the OS as an internal or external hard drive and not as a Network Drive or USB Flash drive. (limitation of my backup software/service)
Must run on desktop Windows OS, not server (another limitation of the backup product)
I have been looking at the Qnap TL-D800C-US which appears to be USB connected and the TL-D1600S-US which looks to utilize a proprietary controller card and should register as an internal drive by way of the PCIE backplane.
What Qnap is not clear on is the hardware raid of these units.
Can someone clarify or perhaps point me in the direction of something that can fill these needs under the $1200 price point, as I will still need to spend some serious change on disks