Storage Enclosure for multiple drives

[tjcinnamon]

I am wondering if there is a box with a bunch of slots for hard drives where I can put in a bunch of TB drives and use them as storage and backup.

I do a fair amount of video editing and I like to hang on to my old projects and clips.

I don't want a RAID set up because I'd rather back them up once a week so if something gets corrupted or contaminated I can just image it back from the previous week. All current projects would be more rigorously backed up.

So, I'm looking for an enclosure that I can use totally for storage but not have to have a separate computer to run it.

Any ideas?

JOe K.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I am in the exact same boat as you although im just starting out with video editing. just got a sdhc avchd cam

I don't have any room in my case for more than 1 HD because my case has been modded to house an h20 setup. i literally only have 1 place to put a drive so that leads me to finding a multi storage drive solution like yourself. Myself, I have an extra case (PC-60) that I can house a bunch of drives in. I just don't have a PSU for it.

What I was thinking was this:

Use this 2 port SATA internal to external SATA bracket to my other case to house the drives. The power supplying solution will be next.

Hope that gives you ideas or helps

Good Luck!

 

[Emulex]

well keep in mind a single sas/sata cable is 3gbit (currently) soon to be 6gbps. Most real external enclosures run a nice sf8088 quad wire setup (4xsata or sas) using nice infiniband wiring with a decent locking end;

typically you'd use a raid/hba controller to that then you could expand to 4x3gbit (sata-2) or 4x6gbit (sas 6gbps) without running into i/o contention.

 

[taltamir]

go to newegg and search cases, there are tons of cases with massive amount of slots... ideally get one with a ton of 5 inch slots and put a tray in each slot, you could just slide drives in and out.

or you could get a rackmount

 

[heymrdj]

I'm looking into this one right now:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16811219033

http://www.norcotek.com/item_d...yid=1&modelno=RPC-4220

 

[taltamir]

350$ for a case? why?

 

[sxr7171]

I'm in the same boat. I want to build myself a home server, and really it gets insanely expensive to find a good case.

You can get one with a lot of 5.25" slots but then you have to buy the $100 5 3.5" to 3 5.25" hot swap bays. So it's $150 for case + 2 or 3x $100 for the hot swap bays.

The $350 Norco is almost a deal in this market.

I can't believe nobody is making a nice case to hold 10-15 3.5" drives for less than $150-200 even now. Hot swap or not.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

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