How to use multiple HDDs?

Question

Iron

In general, there are several HDDs, of different sizes. You need to use them (at home). How do I think? Not in the sense of what to spend their volume on, but in the sense of how to connect them. I looked at US, and something does not pull me to spend from 30 pieces for a "smart" box for 8 seats. For this money you can take a PC, and (for a home file washer) it is not very weak. But I don’t want to spend so much money alone, especially since such a PC already has 4 disks.
The essence of the question - are there any inexpensive small blunt external baskets with their own power supply for disks of 8 pieces? Let it be without LAN, on usb, if only there are no docking stations for 1 disk (you won’t get enough sockets, and it will look disgusting).

Answer 1

Sell ​​all the disks and use the proceeds to buy one normal volume.

Answer 2

External usb boxes 300 rubles each + active usb hub.

Answer 3

First you need to get some adapters for SATA or IDE to USB, there are inexpensive solutions on the Internet. In addition to them, you need a hub for the amount that you include. Preferably all this with USB 3.0. Take any box, install disks in it, leaving spaces for ventilation, you can put a cooler if the disks are actively used. You can saw down a wooden box ala "in retro style" yourself. It is better to buy a power supply unit with the appropriate power and make several molex taps from it, the whole thing is plugged into a USB port, and the power supply unit is plugged into a power outlet. As for the speed of writing / reading - it will be relatively low, but still stable. If you want a full-fledged but budget NAS, you can use Raspberry.

Answer 4

Look towards CFI. www.cfi-rus.ru
It seems that someone else had similar devices, but DAS on many disks is not a very common use case.