Multi external HDD connections?

[john182rs]

Can some one possibly help out?

So far I have 2x1tb 1x2tb HDD's but also some SSD aswell.

Now the TB drives are all connections via USB 1.0 or 2.0, is there anyway I might be able to stip them down and put them in a housing that shares an ethernet connection for faster transfers over my network rather than waiting 6 hours to back up one computer?

 

[Addicted]

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hp-...vered-buy-hp-102-20-after-hp-cashback-1297990 - one of these would do nicely!

It comes with a 250gb drive, but supports up to 4 internal drives, so would be perfect!

 

[john182rs]

Would I be able to take the casings from the other drives and just put the part in to it and it will work fine?

 

[Addicted]

If they're external drives you will have to take them out of the casings, this will void warranties if you have any, and on some drives maybe difficult (never done it so no idea), I imagine it's straight forward but haven't tried it!

 

[Dink]

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hp-...vered-buy-hp-102-20-after-hp-cashback-1297990 - one of these would do nicely!

It comes with a 250gb drive, but supports up to 4 internal drives, so would be perfect!

FFS! i don't even need one of them but for the price i had to buy one lol

 

[Addicted]

It's an extremely good price atm! If i didn't have an atom-based fileserver already I'd snap them up!

 

[Dink]

It's an extremely good price atm! If i didn't have an atom-based fileserver already I'd snap them up!

thats the thing i've got a 4TB atom nas pc lol but is only cappable of taking 2 drive with the small case it's in

 

[Dink]

well got my server up and running with OMV and 5.75TB of HDD's

cron job to shut it down every night and a WoL app on my phone to wake it up.

no raid so living dangerously

 

[dajones]

If they're external drives you will have to take them out of the casings, this will void warranties if you have any, and on some drives maybe difficult (never done it so no idea), I imagine it's straight forward but haven't tried it!

warranty could still be intact with some manufactures. with my WD external drive i transferred in to an internal so save space on the desktop, it failed but the part number to use was the actual HD serial rather than the case etc