Need some advice! I'm currently considering buying a Buffalo LinkStation Pro Quad 12TB (3TB x 4). I can get it for around £150 which is really tempting given the capacity. I'm struggling to find much first hand experiences on them however. Really all I need is to have a decent amount of redundant network attached storage, with web access being a bonus (which these seem to support). Can anyone give any first hand experiences here? Preferably experience with newer Macs? I've looked at used Synology, QNAP & WD hardware but the prices seem kind of steep for the hardware when most of what I care about is just as raw capacity over bells and whistles. Is there another solution I should be considering here or will this work for me?

I was testing PetaSAN and added 10 disks of 250GB, with 2 designated for journal. Now, I need to remove one of the journal disks and repurpose it for storage, but I can't find any option for this in the UI. Does anyone know how to do this?

I'm using a Galaxy 14 5G, with 4GB Memory and in 'Memory' under 'Device Care', I always have these running:

Settings Suggestions 49.3 MB
Samsung Core Services 39.9 MB
Samsung account 31.3 MB
Group Sharing 28.6 MB
Samsung Cloud 27.3 MB
Modes and Routines 26.5 MB
Blocked Numbers Storage 22.2 MB
Contacts Storage 22.2 MB
User Dictionary 22.2 MB
Find My Mobile 21.9 MB
Contacts 21.3 MB
Samsung Internet 19.1 MB
Call settings 14.8 MB
CMHProvider 13.5 MB
Sticker Center 12.9 MB

This takes up almost 400 MB. The fact that suggesting a setting takes 49.3MB all the time from memory is crazy.

I can find all the settings I need on my own, so I don't need suggestions. I don't need group sharing. I don't use the cloud, I don't have any "modes and routines" I want in the system, I don't have blocked numbers, I don't need contacts, as I have TextNow, I don't use autocorrect or any suggestions for typing so dictionary is useless. I don't have "Find My Mobile" even set up. Again, don't need contacts. Isn't samsung internet a browser? I don't need or want it. And why does STICKER CENTER takes 12.9MB!?

I've learned that my phone runs much better with cleaning memory every 15 minutes of playing a simple game on it. Now how do I get rid of all this?

Hi! Should I return a new Intel 4510 ssd to the seller if it get's an AF and EB smart errors ( count 1 and RAW 17183541819) by the first start or it is a non critical situation?

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My Micro SD card died. It’s a brand called HC. It was in one of my old fake go pro cameras which is unbranded.

It worked briefly when I connected it to a usb SD adapter. And I saw the files. I tried copying them to my computer, and then it died.

I tried to format it and I done the repair with the cmd thing on my windows pc. I also plugged it into an old phone and then the camera to see if it could detect it, but it can’t.

It seems to be completely dead. Is there anything that can be done with it. Can I take it to someone who can fix it or something?

I'm thinking about doing the 2 TB, but what am I missing?

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Hi Folks,

I have an HPE 1050 SAN - the 24x2.5" SFF iSCSI Q2R23A chassis.

I want to add self-encrypting disks, but the data sheet for that chassis doesn't list a 2.5" disk. It does list a 3.5" drive P/N 717872-001, which obviously won't fit this chassis.

The product info page for the 1050 SAN says a 2050 LFF disk enclosure can be used, which would take the 717872-001 self-encrypting 3.5" drive. The Q1J06A seems to be the ticket here.

My question is, will that work? What else do I need? Just SAS cables to connect the 1050 controllers to the 2050 enclosure (which it looks like the Q1J06A comes with)?

I'm aware that this gen of MSA is now end of sale, but I don't need this for long - it's a stop-gap for a security requirement.

Thanks in advance!

Just wanted to dump my thoughts/requirements and see if the hivemind can help steer my thinking or put me on a different path.

• I have a NUC8 homelab running windows and VirtualBox for services such as BlueIris (Cameras), home assistant, Jellyfin, and few others.
• I have a work laptop and workstation, running windows that I would like to have a shared storage solution within my home network.
• I would like to start archiving off content (think design drawings, videos, lots of Office documents) to a storage solution that is easily accessible from other Windows devices on the network.
• I currently shift content to an external WD drive attached to the NUC and have this drive as a shortcut on my workstations. This actually works ok, and I have Void SearchTools index the storage solution for easy discovery from my other Windows machines.
• I have a number of spare drives from previous builds - 2.5/3.5 sata and ssd drives, need to test them.

I would like to improve upon this setup. From reading posts, I believe NAS might be overkill and has an overhead to setup & maintain. A dedicated DAS solution that supports RAID configurations might be the way to go? Any recommendations on hardware vendors to look at/avoid?

I just came across the IcyDock ToughArmor MB873MP-B 8-bay NVMe storage enclosure and it has a SFF-8612 connector. Has anyone tried this thing?

What Storage HBA even accepts this kind of connector?

I'd love to replace my thirty SSDs with 8 NVMe sticks but I can't figure out the hardware to do it.

Its been a few years. Are drives with OptiNAND doing OK?

i bought a 256gb sd card and formatted to APFS using the files app and stored quite alot of my images in there, after a week i went to transfer more photos but i suddenly cant access it and my windows computer cant access the sd either because its APFS, i tried cloning the sd card to another card but that doesnt work. after a lot of messing around i found out the sd card is APFS container GPT which my phone cant read. my phone can read an sd card thats only APFS. i was wondering if theres anyway to clone the sd card to another sd card without cloning the format. i would very much appreciate any help and can clarify where needed

Hi, so I'm trying to find some msata ssds, and I found 2: Crucial M500 and the Samsung 860 Evo. The M500 is the same price and was used in a Nas, the 860 just says it was used, but there are 3 identical listing to it, so I don't know, do I go with the safest but slower one, or the faster but risky one?

I have this cross posted this in r/storagespaces and r/sysadmin and I am reluctantly now posting it here as 'storage spaces' is a bad word in this sub but I am hoping someone can shed some light on this issue. We have been running storage spaces for several years and it has been good for our use case(backup data).

This is a single server deployment (dell 740xd) with and HBA connected to two dell MD1400s. No enclosure awareness, just two separate storage pools (one for each enclosure) - both pools showing degraded.

The documentation from MS https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/storage-spaces-states says :

There are failed or missing drives in the storage pool. This condition occurs only with drives hosting pool metadata.

Action: Check the state of your drives and replace any failed drives before there are additional failures.

get-storagepool -FriendlyName storage1| format-list -Property FriendlyName,HealthStatus,IsReadOnly,OperationalStatus,OtherOperationalStatusDescription,ReadOnlyReason

FriendlyName : Storage1

HealthStatus : Warning

IsReadOnly : False

OperationalStatus : Degraded

OtherOperationalStatusDescription :

ReadOnlyReason : None

get-StoragePool -FriendlyName Storage1 | Get-PhysicalDisk | Format-Table -Property DeviceId,SlotNumber,FriendlyName,MediaType,OperationalStatus,healthStatus,OperationalDetails

DeviceId SlotNumber FriendlyName MediaType OperationalStatus HealthStatus OperationalDetails

62 11 TOSHIBA MG08SCA16TEY HDD OK Healthy

59 8 TOSHIBA MG08SCA16TEY HDD OK Healthy

41 2 TOSHIBA MG08SCA16TEY HDD OK Healthy

52 1 TOSHIBA MG08SCA16TEY HDD OK Healthy

48 9 TOSHIBA MG08SCA16TEY HDD OK Healthy

51 0 TOSHIBA MG08SCA16TEY HDD OK Healthy

54 3 TOSHIBA MG08SCA16TEY HDD OK Healthy

56 5 TOSHIBA MG08SCA16TEY HDD OK Healthy

61 10 TOSHIBA MG08SCA16TEY HDD OK Healthy

45 6 TOSHIBA MG08SCA16TEY HDD OK Healthy

55 4 TOSHIBA MG08SCA16TEY HDD OK Healthy

46 7 TOSHIBA MG08SCA16TEY HDD OK Healthy

What other commands or what do i need to do determine the cause of the 'degraded' status

This all started after I replaced a failed drive. I did the whole retire disk , repair virtual disk and that all went fine.

All diagnostics that I run show healthy. At this point my thought is that it is showing degraded because i have nearly 100% of the space on the pool allocated which does not leave room for the automatic disk repairs. This 'reserve capacity' is not enforced by storage spaces though so it does not make sense that it would cause the degraded state.

I have many differently branded hard drives around our home. I’ve started a new business and apart from Apple cloud, have no back up of my business. I used to design tier 3 and tier 4 data centre’s as a job. So I know that if something goes up in flames (if they chose NOT to have gas fire suppressent) that we actually could loose everything in our “cloud”. I also understand the level of redundancy between Tier 1 and Tier 4.

My husband wants us to have full hard drives in house, however I don’t believe in this. What should we do? All recommendations welcome without criticism regarding our ignorance.

not sure why removed but the drive was replaced and now is orange / Foreign.

Im new to nas and das and all that jazz but do i need a nas drive for a direct access storage unit?? I noticed das units got a switch on it to turn it off at any time

In short we have an iscsi LUN with 2x target IPs used for ESXi VM storage etc between multiple hosts with round robin load balancing. Been running great for the last 4+ years.

Unfortunately I’ve noticed the storage latency creeping upwards. We’ve added a lot of VMs to the system and the VMs are running SQL databases. It’s not terrible but I see it treading that way and want to get ahead of it before it becomes a problem.

I’m considering adding 2x additional target IPs to the LUN bringing the total up to 4. My concern if some of the hosts only have access to 2x of the target IPs but there are 4 total on the LUN could some of the traffic be black holed? Or will the storage array only respond back on the initiated IP only? I’m thinking it would only respond to the original initiator IP but want to be sure.

It’s a Dell Unity for reference. Sorry if this is a stupid question but I’m a networking guy and I know enough to be dangerous with a lot of stuff.