You want ASMedia ASM1351 (heatsinked) or ASM235CM on the device side 🥹

This box has 4x ASM235CM and from the testing I've conducted over the last week it seems rock solid, so long as it's not connected to the Ryzen's built-in USB controller. It's been flawless on the B350 chipset's USB controller.

Thanks for the warning ⚠️🙏

This isn't my first rodeo with ZFS on USB. I've been running USB for a few years now. Recently I ran this particular box through a battery of tests and I'm reasonably confident that with my particular set of hardware it'll be fine. It passed everything I threw at it, once connected to a good port on my machine. But you're generally right and as you can see I discussed that in the testing thread, and I encountered some issues that I managed to solve. If you think I've missed something specific - let me know! 😊

That was the cheapest option. 🤭

Two machines. A main server/workstation and a small off-site backup machine that runs the same services but hass less compute and RAM.

• 8x 8TB in a set of 2, some shucked WDs, some IronWolfs
• 5x 16TB in a set of 2, "recertified" WDs from serverpartdeals.com

Multilayer recording sounds like it would require read-rewrite similar to how SMR works. Still perhaps we'd be okay with that for the dramatic capacity increase.

And now it no longer shows up.

Quite possibly. That said the one I linked is CUI, not a noname. It's even got an MTBF of 300K hours in its datasheet. There are cheaper ones. 😅 And more expensive ones.

It can't because birds are not real.

I see a number of dual-output PSUs on Mouser that will probably fit well if this goes. For example.

Yeah, I googled that IC, no hits. 😂

git merge --no-ff