My life is generally Mac and Thunderbolt centric and I’m trying to bring it into the Linux world. The work flow on the Mac goes immediate storage goes onto a 2TB external NVME, then to one of the two drive 4TB drives on my OWC open dock, then moves into a 16TB soft RAID array, and backup is on a 16TB HW raid all are thunderbolt enclosures. The issue I have is that mdam doesn’t work on either my Trixie or 26.04 install so I can’t convert my existing soft RAID to anything readable.

Does anyone know of a 8 bay preferably thunderbolt hardware RAID enclosure that isnt’t 1000 dollars?

  • Lemmchen@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    You miiight be able to recover the array if you’re lucky

    I don’t see how this would apply. Having the disks connected externally is the same as having them connected internally, maybe over a different bus/protocol, but the principle is the same. No RAID solution I know of would lose the array on a power outage (AFAIK).

    the problem is the target not being able to manage its own interrupt

    Honestly I don’t see how interrupt handling would be any different between internally or externally connected devives, except for different buses/protocols handling it differently intrinsicly. Are you absolutely sure this is a thing or are you just speculating?

    you have two different states

    Maybe I’m too spolied by using ZFS, but again I don’t think this would actually be a problem. But AFAICT you don’t even need a CoW filesystem for that to be not a problem. Every journaling filesystem (e.g. ext4) would solve this by dismissing the newest non-consistent data and restore a working state.

    I mean, there are 60-bay 19" expansion units for enterprise storage systems. I doubt these would be a thing if having the drives connected externally was a problem.