USB storage with a stupid bottleneck

[DJRWolf]

Sabrent has what I consider to be a decent idea with a 5-drive 2.5" bay USB RAID enclosure but they were stupid and only gave it a 5 Gbps USB 3.0 link. They really should have used a 10 Gbps USB link. Yes I know HDD's would not be a problem but a single SSD will saturate a 5 Gbps USB link much less a RAID array of them.

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TG3186B

[Needfuldoer]

Eew, low-end hardware RAID.

 

Do we know what chipset it's running, and whether that's capable of shuffling more than 5Gbps to and from the drives?

[Robchil]

25 minutes ago, DJRWolf said:

Sabrent has what I consider to be a decent idea with a 5-drive 2.5" bay USB RAID enclosure but they were stupid and only gave it a 5 Gbps USB 3.0 link. They really should have used a 10 Gbps USB link. Yes I know HDD's would not be a problem but a single SSD will saturate a 5 Gbps USB link much less a RAID array of them.

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TG3186B

Probably because Sata3 is caped at 4.8GB?.. 

[Kilrah]

1 hour ago, Robchil said:

Probably because Sata3 is caped at 4.8GB?.. 

Not with 5 of them.

 

1 hour ago, DJRWolf said:

Sabrent has what I consider to be a decent idea with a 5-drive 2.5" bay USB RAID enclosure but they were stupid and only gave it a 5 Gbps USB 3.0 link.

Looks like an old product, there probably wasn't 10Gbit chips for that yet, or they were too expensive for that class of product.