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Pros

Bought the d5-300 as a replacement drive array for a failed truenas server. Tb plex movie library. I have it mirrored on an 8tb drive so just in case the raid 5 suffers a major failure i won't lose all my data.



Cons

There's a giant sticker claiming 24-hour tech support on the side, but that sticker appears to be a liar. The older version --- which was my great misfortune to receive --- is not compatible with the current, modern macos version. The version shipping...  Read More

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Quality


Overall, this a great enclosure to consolidate multiple discs and not worry about overheating.


So read a lot of reviews before buying this mostly read bad thingsbut glad i still got ityes the hdd sleeve is plastic but it’s...  Read More


The current terra master's raid manager does not work above macos 14.


I did have an issue getting one of the drives to work at first, but it had nothing to do with this enclosure.

Price


I'll be buying another one if they go on sale around black friday, and will update this review if anything goes wrong with my unit.


If wanting to run a media server like me, get a cheap optiplex and run a gtx 1660 externally with a riser card, upgrade the ram...  Read More

Competitiveness


In comparison, my old individual enclosures used to go up to 52 degrees c!

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  • This product had a total of 783 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 10 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Greetings if you are like me you saw that it was listed compatible with linux this is not true


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The most you will be able to achieve is a software raid array with mdadm


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    You must look for articles on how to do it as amazon will not let me post it


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    You more than likely want to run a raid 5 or raid 6 like me and i am using 3 18tb drives for now until eventually i get 5


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    In my opinion this or raid 6 would be the best choice for data security


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    First take the hard drives and put them in one at a time and plug into your linux pc


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    You want to open disks and format each drive to be exfat4


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Also to note you may have rebooting issues if you modify your fstab do not do that

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