Oh no, what a loss.
If this is for 24/7 use, don't do USB drives. The problem, typically, is that the SATA->USB chipsets will, at some point, shit themselves and you'll have random things crashing or even data loss.
They're really just not designed for constant load, and a server-esque workload is just asking for shit to break at random and data to be lost.
And yes, I know lots of people use them like this, but this is very much a case of it's perfectly fine until it's not.
schizo
joined 3 weeks ago
Agreed. I'd say that, if you have the option, then the libre option is the one you should pick whenever you can. But, realistically, software is a hammer, and you should pick the hammer that does what you want, and ignore the internet hollering that you're somehow impure if you use even a single piece of proprietary software.