so I have a bunch of laptop hard drives and when you have them all in enclosures it is a mess on the table. Is there some sort of massive enclosure that can fit like 5 or more 2.5 drives all at once? The purpose of this is to minimize the amount of space taken up so building a computer and stuffing it in there kind of defeats the purpose.
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12 drives enough?
http://www.webconnexxion.com/addonics-rt31225eu3-raid-tower-iiic-12-2-5-hdd-4-esata.html
There are enclosures in the 4-5 drives range but I'm having hard time to locate a good one right now.
Most enclosures are meant for 3.5" drives. Getting one could be cheaper and then buy 2.5"->3.5" adapters. Also most of the cheaper ones are just passthru boxes, you are supposed to drive them with a raid card in your desktop.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mediasonic-...re-USB-3-0-eSATA-Sata-3-6-0Gbps-/281845814560
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ORICO-4-Bay...l-Aluminium-Enclosure-RAID-Mode-/301905262971
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-5-to-3-5-...nting-Bracket-Adapter-Holder-S5-/281950256588zergslayer69 likes this. -
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How about 90 2.5" drives? http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/files/storage/f_storage_90Bays.pdf
But yeah, theres plenty, heres from the HDD enclosure section http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...17-707-367:$$$$15$$$;9SIA1DS1PR5065:$$$$15$$$
and here's from the NAS section http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...00043538 600043545&IsNodeId=1&IsPowerSearch=1 -
If you have eSata in your laptop, then it's possible to get an empty box and add in esata multiplier controller card (if I'd only remember the manufacturer right now). There is a lot of possibilities but none of them are really cheap. -
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I personally use the ProBox and can say it's a fine little box. I use it with 3.5" drives as a backup for my server, using USB 3.0, and it's held up great. They do make an 8-bay pro-box as well, but it costs more than twice as much as the 4-bay, so it might be better to get two 4-bay ones and stack them on top of each other.
Is there an enclosure that holds multiple 2.5" drives?
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