Device for using multiple small drives

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Hi,

Im trying to think of a way to utilise some of the smaller old hard drives I have, as well as perhaps small solid state drives.

I was thinking about perhaps some sort of enclosure which takes around 10 or so drives which I can connect to my microserver or pc somehow?

Does anyone have any suggestions?
 
Hi,

Yeah, thanks, I was thinking about doing this but need to do so outside of my pc as it is currently filled to capacity.

And Id like to do it cheaply, if such an enclosure, or controller card exists (I could build the enclosure from sheet metal or wood.
 
I'm going to try a SATA pcie card and run the cables outside of my pc, this should give me 2x sata and 2x esata so if I build an enclosure for 4 drives I should be golden.

I just need to figure out power, either long cables or a seperate power supply.

Its a HP microserver, anyone know how much I can push this with extra drives?
 
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