I work in film post production and we often receive footage from our clients on a bunch of HDDs (up to 40 drives in a cardboard box!). We're looking for a device, such as a docking station, that would allow us to conveniently connect as many HDDs as possible, simultaneously, to a single Mac Studio machine, so we could transfer their contents to our internal RAID systems, as fast as possible.
All docking stations I've found so far have no more than 5 slots. Ideally, we'd like 10 or more.
I have an idea to get a cheap rackmountable JBOD chassis, such as this (doesn't really matter what brand):
...and hook it up to our Mac Studio using an Thunderbolt Mini-SAS port adapter, such as RocketStor 6661A-mSAS2:
My question is, would that work? Will macOS recognize these drives in Disk Utility? Will I be able to monitor their SMART params?
Thanks!
All docking stations I've found so far have no more than 5 slots. Ideally, we'd like 10 or more.
I have an idea to get a cheap rackmountable JBOD chassis, such as this (doesn't really matter what brand):
...and hook it up to our Mac Studio using an Thunderbolt Mini-SAS port adapter, such as RocketStor 6661A-mSAS2:
My question is, would that work? Will macOS recognize these drives in Disk Utility? Will I be able to monitor their SMART params?
Thanks!
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