Going to need a significant amount of storage soon. eSATA it’s significantly cheaper than a SAS enclosure + card.

I had thought that if i’m going to use a snapraid setup for these drives (to make it so only one drive it’s active for any given opperation, it should work the same.

Any experience with this type of setup?

  • chipt4@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This would be the route I’d take if I were in your shoes, OP. Basically a DIY DAS (direct attach storage). If you have an old case + PSU, all you’d really need is the LSI card, which can be had for roughly $35 on eBay, and some cheap cables.

    Alternatively, upgrade your current case to one that can support more drives and do it all in one case. You’d still need the LSI card and some cables, maybe a 1 to 4 SATA power splitter or two for the additional drives.