Multi Hard Drive enclosure - USB2

AndrewPE28 · 19 Jun 2007 at 09:34

HI

Looking for the above. Need it to house upto 4 drives, with USB 2 and PSU.

Any ideas?

rpstewart · 19 Jun 2007 at 10:35

That might be a tricky one to find. I've had a quick look and there are a quite a lot of 4 disk SATA enclosures but they tend to use 4 x eSATA back to the PC. There is a Stardom IDE to USB one but it only takes a pair of disks.

You might have better luck looking down the NAS route.

AndrewPE28 · 19 Jun 2007 at 10:51

rpstewart said:
That might be a tricky one to find. I've had a quick look and there are a quite a lot of 4 disk SATA enclosures but they tend to use 4 x eSATA back to the PC. There is a Stardom IDE to USB one but it only takes a pair of disks.

You might have better luck looking down the NAS route.

Well I can just use a local hub can't ? and whats NAS? sorry noob here

rpstewart · 19 Jun 2007 at 11:09

The only problem with using a USB hub is that you end up with umpteen power cords for the external enclosures, it's just an annoyance though.

NAS=Networked Attached Storage - it's a box that connects to your PC via ethernet, in a domestic situation they're normally attached to the ethernet side of a router to allow the contents to be shared across a local LAN without having to have a server running all the time. They're a bit pricey when compared to USB enclosures but 4 disk versions are pretty easy to come by.