Looking for a raid enclosure to act as DAS. How can I exceed

>>57904153
By not using sata. SAS or eSAS will both go beyond that, as will 10Ge

>>57904153
Use SAS.

>>57904153
Multiple SATA connectors and RAID.
However elaborate better on what you want to achieve.

>>57904153
Use DAS

>>57904238
Looking for a big box to shove in a few of my 15+ surplus hdds (some of which may be in early stages of failure) so that I can raid my data for better data protection and performance.

>>57904153
Why DAS and not NAS?

>>57904293
What kind of data? How often will you access them?
What kind of redundancy do you need? ie is it just anime garbage or does it include old backups, work files etc?

>>57904332
Speed
>>57904344
Porn. Vidya

>>57904430
>Porn. Vidya
kys

>>57904344
Backups too. It's data I don't want to lose. Pretty important to me.

>>57904430
>Speed
>Porn. Vidya
How exactly are those things that require fast storage? Do you plan to run installed games from the thing or what? If not, why exactly do you want to overpay for 600+ MB/s speed when something like bog-standard Gbit LAN would get you there 99% of the way in practice?

Also I used to actually run BF4 over Samba from my home server, IIRC it was running md RAID5 at the time. It actually loaded significantly faster than the shitty HDD I had in my desktop at the time.

>>57904491
Yeah, you're right actually. I was just looking into it and interested academically when the question popped into my head. I have a bunch of old HDDs that failed from work, but after replacing them they pass every test I have run on them but some still fail in practice. Any idea how I can better test them for speed and reliability?

>>57904595
>Any idea how I can better test them for speed and reliability?
badblocks, multiple passes.
It might take a couple days but it's better than not having disks.

>>57904595

If it's in order to learn, you can shove them in whatever old tower you find, install FreeNAS on it, add a second network interface and configure this as an iSCSI target.

You can learn much in the process, if you want to increase perf you can put a 10 Gb ethernet on both your PC and this box to use iSCSI with, and try experimenting with different RAID levels.

Have fun.