FINALLY! I finally have a case for my four U.2 drives! It just arrived; I placed the drives in it (mounted on two Sonnet Dual Fusion U.2 PCIe cards), plugged in power and Thunderbolt 3 cables, et voilà! The GUI file manager sees all four drives under Devices. (Whew!)
Then I opened GParted GUI, and it also sees all four drives. It labels them each as 6.99TiB unallocated. Now, I dimly recall talking to Sonnet about the cards before ordering them, and I think that they told me the cards have built in RAID software. I have the instruction sheet that came with the cards, but it says nothing about setting up RAID arrays. But then, I have four drives, two on each card, so even if their cards have such software, it might be impossible to set it up with two separate cards. It's just that someone told me many years ago that hardware RAID was always better than software RAID. So far all I have done with GParted is fire it up and verify that it sees the drives, all as 'nvme1n1.' I think it can create a RAID0 array out of them, but I've never done that before with GParted. I could use some pointers. :) All suggestions and observations welcome! _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
