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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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So how good it's performance with single port eSATA enclosures? (alien.top)

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.