Is it a good idea to run a home server for file storage with an Intel NUC connected to a used Pegasus 2 R4 8TB?

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I am planning to make a small home server with an 11th gen intel NUC that I am not using.

I am trying to find a good HDD enclosure and I come across a used Pegasus 2 R4 8TB Thunderbolt 2 RAID Array Storage which is selling about USD125.

  1. Is this a good idea? I have never used a Promise tech/ Pegasus product before. Has anyone have any idea on the pegasus OS?

2 .How would I setup the NAS? Should I run the software raid on the Pegasus or the Intel NUC?

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I’m not too familiar with this one but so long as it allows you access to the disks in a JBOD fashion, I dont see a problem. I would 100% run it as a zfs array though, no software raids.

I would probably run something like unraid, or truenas scale personally.

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looks like their docs say it can do JBOD

its not clear to me how you configure that. its definitely intended to be used with a mac as the drives are preformatted HFS.

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It looks like it uses a pre-acquisition PMC Sierra 8011 SAS raid controller which should be far more reliable than the Asmedia controllers.

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I believe the Pegasus 2 R4 is limited to 10Gbps per port. Which should be fine as long as you aren’t daisy chaining the thunderbolt.

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Thanks for your replies.
I’ve just noticed that the item has a TB2 port but my intel NUC has a TB3. So to connect them, I would need a converter which makes the whole thing unnecessarily complicated.

So this idea is a total non-starter for me.

On the side note, is there a list or any discussion I can find which HDD enclosure is good enough to use as a long term DAS? It’s hard to know which is which HDD enclosure would be stable for long term use.

It’s hard to know which HDD enclosure’s chip is good, or even find reliable information.

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And those TB2 to TB3 adapters aren’t cheap.