External hdd enclosure for a few disks ?

[Snow-Munki]

Hi,

Decided to get rid of my Icybox nas box as it was too slow and not very expandable, already filled up the 1TB raid drives.

And as most / all MITX cases only allow one 3.5'' disk my only option seems to be some sort of external enclosure to hold about 3 or 4 3.5'' disks.

Such a thing exist ? Prefer if it used the Pc's power I guess over SATA or something ???

Otherwise I could just get one of those Lian Li drive bay things and just put it next to the file server, just looks a bit messy !

 

[Snow-Munki]

Ah ha, jsut found this :

http://www.lian-li.com.tw/v2/en/pro...dex=331&cl_index=2&sc_index=5&ss_index=13&g=f

looks like it has just come out, looks expensive though

 

[Snow-Munki]

woah they're like £140+ for anything half decent !

Might just stack the HDD's up in a pile with SATA cables

 

[Snow-Munki]

Find some wood, a 120mm fan, some nails and an esata expansion card. O and you might need a saw and hammer.

If I got an esata card, can I just plug another 2 HDD's to it externally by getting an esata to sata cable or something ?

Or can I buy some sort of backplain which goes from esata to my hard drives ??