I’ve heard self-hosters say USB isn’t great for server / NAD drives long term but I don’t know where they get that. It actually sounds pretty rad to have a small server plugged into a powerful dedicated enclosure! Especially with those Thunderbolt speeds.
But wow that IS stupidly complicated. I have all those different USB ports on my motherboard IO and I get the nagging feeling I’m not taking advantage of them but also…whatever, don’t care, they do the simple jobs. Lol
I’ve heard self-hosters say USB isn’t great for server / NAD drives long term but I don’t know where they get that. It actually sounds pretty rad to have a small server plugged into a powerful dedicated enclosure! Especially with those Thunderbolt speeds.
But wow that IS stupidly complicated. I have all those different USB ports on my motherboard IO and I get the nagging feeling I’m not taking advantage of them but also…whatever, don’t care, they do the simple jobs. Lol
USB 3.x tops out at 10 GB/s. TB4 tops out at 40 GB/s. With four hard drives, running in parallel, maxing out at 6 GB/s each, that’s 24 GB/s.
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