Disk Drive Housing

[BobH]

Over the past couple of years I have accumulated 8 hard drives. Only 2 of them are mounted in my tower case and I'm thinking of pulling one of those out and replacing it with an SSD. This will give me more external drives than I have space for; so I was considering investigating an external disk cabinet.

Has anyone here done this for a home system? Are there any cautions about data transfer speeds, power, cooling, et al, that I should know about? Any recommendations?

[Rudi]

Have you found out anything more about this Bob?
Not that I have need of this or researched this, but out of interest, are there purchasable options for this or would this be a home-made custom built project.

[BobH]

Here is one option I found. They get more expensive as you go for greater capacity.

[Rudi]

First time ever seeing this. Then again....I don't think I'd ever have so many hard drives lying around.
TX for the share...even if it was just for interest sake.

[DaveA]

Back in the DOS days we used "Jukeboxes" The cam is many sizes based on the number of drives one wanted add.

I did a Google and that term (Jukebox) is still be used.

[BobH]

Most of what I found under "Jukebox" for HDDs was for single drive enclosures or, strangely, Karaoke devices.

I have several 1TB drives that are in individual Sabrent USB 3.0 external enclosures connected to USB 2.0 ports. I recently bought a 10-port USB 3.0 hub so I gained 1 USB 3.0 port back. At some point in the future, I'm going to want all those devices connected to a single port which is why I was looking into multi-drive external HDD enclosures. Up to 4 HDDs is fairly reasonably priced, but going up from there gets very expensive very quickly. (or is that cwicly?)

[BobH]

Test

[HansV]

Test what?

[Rudi]

Perfectly spelt Bob...

[BobH]

Sorry about that, folks.

I was having Internet connection problems and typed that to prove to myself that the connection was down. Apparently, the post was cached and sent as soon as the connection was re-established.

I clicked on the X to delete it and got a confirmation response, but apparently it's still there. Today I am the bug and not the windscreen.

[Rudi]

If you had Jay's internet speed, the words would be uploaded before you even typed it

[Jay Freedman]

If you had Jay's internet speed, the words would be uploaded before you even typed it

Yes, I run into that all the time. I have a heck of a job typing fast enough to keep up with what's appearing on the screen!