Thu Oct 13, 2022 11:49 am
I am interested in this thread and others' experiences. I just got a Cloud Pod and my plan us to use Orico 5-bay RAID enclosures with it. These enclosures take 5 hard drives and allow you to set them up as RAID, and you connect it via USB to your "host". I just looks like one big USB drive in this mode. I have two and I've been able to connect them to Windows, Mac, Linux, and Synology with no issue so I assumed I could connect them to the Cloud Pod.
Currently they are formatted as NTFS and full - one one has 5x14TB drives, giving a total of 52TB of space (14TB "lost" on each one for parity). So when you plug it into a computer it just looks like one 52TB volume. To use these with a Cloud Pod, it will be a bit of work for me - I need to use another Orico enclosure, and another set of drives, which I will format as exFAT, then copy all of the contents of one of my NTFS formatted volumes to it - then I can plug that newly copied drive into the Cloud Pod. After that, I can take the recently "cleared" drive, format it as exFAT, and copy the 2nd NTFS volume to that one. Then I'll have two exFAT formatted Orico boxes and a 3rd one as a "spare" which I can then clear and begin to fill.
But it sounds like some people are having trouble with larger devices. I'm not familiar with the other devices being discussed in this thread, and there are many parameters - like are they formatted correctly with just ONE exFAT for HFS+ partition? There are a lot of variables in play.
However, I would like to try to figure out if my scenario is going to work before I go out and spend the money on the 3rd set of drives. If this isn't going to work, I'd like to know before my return window expires, as $400 is a bit of money to spend on a device that won't work for me.
Thoughts?