Top products from r/btrfs
We found 3 product mentions on r/btrfs. We ranked the 3 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. StarTech.com 6in USB 2.0 A to USB 4 Pin to Motherboard Header Adapter F/F - USB cable - USB (F) to 4 pin USB 2.0 header (F) - USBMBADAPT
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
Connect internal USB devices directly to the motherboard header connectionBoot your OS from an internal USB 2.0 jump drive / great for customized embedded systemsPlug your USB flash drive directly to the motherboard for extra software securityBoot your OS from an internal USB 2.0 jump drive / great ...
Show Reddit reviews2. Monoprice IDE to Compact Flash CF Adapter w/PCI Bracket [A2]
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
The SD-CF-IDE-BR is an adapter for connecting a compact flash memory card to a 3.5"IDE host interface aiming at educational sectors IT development and the embedded technology enthusiast to enable the use of a compact flash card as an IDE hard drive.No external power needed when used on VIA's EPIA se...
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Show Reddit reviews3. Thermaltake BlacX Duet eSATA USB Dual Hard Drives Docking Station ST0014U
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Read & Write 2 Hard Drives simultaneously (Note: Device's eSATA must support the "port multiplier" function to see both drives, USB will automatically detect)Supports All 2.5" & 3.5" SATA Hard Drives up to 2TB (per slot)Supports eSATA Transfer Speed up to 3.0 Gbps, USB 2.0 Transfer Speed up to 480 M...
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Can't you add an external sata (eSata) drive. I bought 3 and all are satalll and they will hold either 3 1/2 or 5 1/4 hds.
There are 1 & 2 slot units & you just insert drives vertically like toaster.
The single slot units are cheap. $50
Might let you recover the array by adding a new drive.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002MUYOLW/ref=mp_s_a_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467645087&sr=8-1-spell&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=single+slot+external+sata+drive+enclosue
Possible workaround: Put /boot on a flash drive.
Both of my home machines have something like this inside and connected to the motherboard's USB header:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000IV6S9S
And attached to that is just a regular old USB thumb drive to serve as my /boot. This was originally done so that I could have /boot be on something other than my raid6 array and I wouldn't have to worry about having /boot copied on multiple disks in the array or anything like that. It lets me keep the array's disks simple and disposable. Only one array, only one partition (or no partitions) on every disk.
Since /boot gets very little writing, even cheap USB flash drives tend to last forever. Just dd a full image of the flash drive somewhere safe occasionally just in case it dies. I've been doing this since 2009 or so, and haven't had a flash drive die yet, but I did mysteriously lose a motherboard's header port and had to move that flash drive to be external.
Flash drives with USB header connectors right on them do exist, but I decided it was easier to just use the cheap adapter cable and then be able to use any random flash drive I had lying around. That way, if one dies, I'm not scrambling to find an immediate replacement of an obscure item.
Back when motherboards still had legacy IDE ports that were never used anymore, I used to use this sort of adapter for /boot on a compactflash card:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001TIXJ5U