I think I’m looking for something that does not exist

I am looking for a cheap rack multiple chassis / enclosure that I can stick individual hard drives in and then plug them into my servers through USB or SATA. So DAS storage.

I can’t find anything on the web that exists. Even anything from Etsy that’s custom made. It’s all $200 or more and includes some sort of controller. I just want something I can put my drives in and then plug in.

Does it exist?

  • @Rand0mA
    4•1 year ago

    So… It’s just to hold the drives?? And you’ll use a usb cable from each drive to the computer you want it in???

    You can get JBOD enclosures. JBOD means just a bunch of disks… where a NAS will give you a console or gui to manage disks and things like raid, a jbod enclosure would act the same as an external usb drive… Even with multiple disks. Though this would only be for one computer…

  • @rambos
    2•1 year ago

    There are HDD docking stations that can be used over USB