06-15-2018, 04:54 AM
(06-14-2018, 08:57 PM)fire219 Wrote: My recommendation would be to just use the Rock64 (with a high quality 3A or 4A power supply -- no need for the big ones you have in mind) with a JMS578 adapter hooked up to just one SSD, and use the other SSD as an offline backup (connect with a similar adapter on one of the USB2 ports when you want to backup). This will be safer than cheap RAID and there is less to go wrong.
I second that! Offline backup is the best way to go... no power spikes to fry primary and backups, no software raid to ruin your day. Do an image of your OS separately, and then do a backup of the SSDs with rsync, syncthing, etc.