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Storage Enclosure for multiple drives

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tjcinnamon

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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.
 
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!
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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