Cheap HDD array?

kowloon · 26-02-2009 5:51pm #1

So I have half a dozen sata hdds and a single sta-usb adaptor and power adaptor to run them. Sometimes I have to plug through all five to find what I'm looking for. Multi-drive enclosures are either dual drive ones or extremely expensive. What's the cheapest way anyone can think of to get all these drives, a mix of 2.5s and 3.5s working simultaneously?

extra-ordinary_ · 26-02-2009 6:42pm

Why don't you just build a cheap system and install the 5 drives?

kowloon · 27-02-2009 2:30pm

Could do, but that's a whole other machine running then.
I'd much rather have the equivalent of a giant external drive.

LoveDucati2 · 01-03-2009 2:38pm

buy an external usb and bin the old HD's.

zod · 01-03-2009 2:41pm

kowloon wrote: »

Could do, but that's a whole other machine running then.
I'd much rather have the equivalent of a giant external drive.

faced with this I bought a second hand cheap buffalo nas off ebay .. it was over a 100 yoyo tho, not happy with its speed also

sink · 01-03-2009 3:05pm

Depends on how much data you have but your best option is probably to transfer contents of old hd's to new external hd. They go up to 2TB, 2000GB now.

kowloon · 02-03-2009 12:33am

It seems like such a waste

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Cheap HDD array?

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