HDD selection for JBOD unit

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I was fortunate enough to pick up a Sabrent DS-UCTB (USB-C 3.2 10 bay tray-less docking station) recently, so i'm currently going through my numerous external drives and either ditching them or grabbing the drives out of them, but i'd like to add in a couple of really big storage drives.

One of the options I have is a 14TB Seagate EXOS X18 enterprise drive (ST14000NM001J) for a sensible price - now here's the question, it's an SED model, however I have neither then need, desire nor intention to use the additional encryption this model provides..... can i still use it in the external box? or is there some reason i shouldn't (i can't see any reason not to)
 
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I was fortunate enough to pick up a Sabrent DS-UCTB (USB-C 3.2 10 bay tray-less docking station) recently, so i'm currently going through my numerous external drives and either ditching them or grabbing the drives out of them, but i'd like to add in a couple of really big storage drives.

One of the options I have is a 14TB Seagate EXOS X18 enterprise drive (ST14000NM001J) for a sensible price - now here's the question, it's an SED model, however I have neither then need, desire nor intention to use the additional encryption this model provides..... can i still use it in the external box? or is there some reason i shouldn't (i can't see any reason not to)
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Any 3.5" drive will work fine in that as it is a JBOD (Just A Bunch Of Disks) box, basically you see all the drives independently or you can RAID them on another device if you want. If you just want them to show up as 10 separate drives that's exactly what the device does unless you decide to RAID the drives but that involves either an external RAID device or you can do it in software on your PC with the inbuilt RAID features/software.

So no issues at all using the drive you mention also you can use SSDs/2.5" Hard disks too with a 3.5" to 2.5" adaptor to fit the 3.5" bays. So basically any mixture and make/brand, ssds and different sizes of sata drives.

The encryption on drives is normally disabled by default too and only enabled threw their software when you setup the drive for encryption needs.
 
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Thx, I didn't think it would be an issue, just needed a sanity check.

Turns out I may not be going for that drive as I managed to pick up an unused exos 12TB regular drive for 155, but still good to have the info if things change


And yeah, I just wanted individual disks, no need for raid, time to start reducing external drives and just using this.
 
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