[Discuss] Reliable external HD enclosure for Linux?

[Steve Litt]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 17:11:14 -0400
Daniel Barrett <dbarrett at blazemonger.com> wrote:

> 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,

What makes you sure it's the enclosure and not the drive. As long as I
can remember, Seagate drives had the reputation of unreliability.

SteveT

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