I was watching a YouTube video the other day talking about hooking a drive bay to a mini PC, and he mentioned that usb cables and sata chipset are finally getting reliable recently. Something about standards improving, etc. I’m curious if anyone knows what he’s referring to, are there sata chipsets in enclosures that are better now? I always had so many issues with reliability but admittedly that was years ago.
SAS controller with external ports and a DAS enclosure will always be more reliable than USB. Can be had used for a very modest outlay.
I might trust thunderbolt at bit more, but I’d never trust USB with critical data.