[Discuss] Reliable external HD enclosure for Linux?

[Daniel Barrett]

tl;dr: Anybody recommend a reliable USB3-to-SATA hard drive enclosure
for Linux with large drives?

Details:

I recently bought a Seagate IronWolf 8TB SATA HD and installed it
inside an Inateck USB3-to-SATA enclosure to use as a backup drive. I
get errors in the middle of file transfers:

  rsync: write failed on "<filename here>": Read-only file system (30)
  rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(393) [receiver=3.1.2]

and the drive becomes inaccessible:

  $ ls /mnt/backups
  /bin/ls: reading directory '/mnt/backups': Input/output error

though it's mounted:

  $ df -h /dev/sdc1
  Filesystem                    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  /dev/sdc1                     7.3T  1.9T  5.0T  28% /mnt/backups

Unmounting and remounting usually relieves the symptom. "fsck -f"
reports no drive errors on the ext4 filesystem.

I suspect the Inatek enclosure is the problem, based on reports from
other users. Can anyone recommend an enclosure that's reliable?

Thanks,
Dan

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Dan Barrett
dbarrett at blazemonger.com