Just got an offer to buy two old Sonnet Fusion disk enclosures and RAID controllers. Both enclosures support 8 disks and connect to the RAID controller via two SSF 8088 cables (4 disk per cable). Have anyone tried these with FreeNAS? Should I be concern about reliability considering their age (5 and 10 years respectively)?
The enclosures are sold with 8 used hard drives each. Would you be concerned about their reliability? I'm considering setting them up as four-way mirrors so that multiple failures have a low chance of compromising data. Or would you just buy some new disks and throw the used ones away?
The Sonnet cabinets (on wayback machine, they are no longer available on the Sonnet web site):
* Sonnet Fusion D800RAID (https://web.archive.org/web/20110511035203/http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusiond800raid.html)
* Sonnet Fusion DX800RAID (https://web.archive.org/web/20091004164801/http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusiondx800raid.html)
Thank you in advance!
The enclosures are sold with 8 used hard drives each. Would you be concerned about their reliability? I'm considering setting them up as four-way mirrors so that multiple failures have a low chance of compromising data. Or would you just buy some new disks and throw the used ones away?
The Sonnet cabinets (on wayback machine, they are no longer available on the Sonnet web site):
* Sonnet Fusion D800RAID (https://web.archive.org/web/20110511035203/http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusiond800raid.html)
* Sonnet Fusion DX800RAID (https://web.archive.org/web/20091004164801/http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusiondx800raid.html)
Thank you in advance!