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Update: This popular deal is available again with a new promo code.

Amazon has SABRENT 10 Bay 3.5" SATA Hard Drive Tray Less Docking Station (DS-UCTB) on sale for $398.38 when you apply promo code 200XUCTB during checkout. Shipping is free.

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About this Item:
  • USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C port supports transfer speeds of up to 10 Gbps
  • 10x SATA 6 Gbit/s 3.5" hard drive tray-less bays
  • Hot-Swappable with 10 independent ON/OFF power switches
  • Two 120mm fans for additional cooling capability
  • Note: This multi-bay station does NOT have built in RAID functionality. However, software RAID configurations are possible

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Update: This popular deal is available again with new promo code 200XUCTB. Final price is now $399.97.

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Model: SABRENT 10 Bay 3.5” SATA Hard Drive Tray Less Docking Station (USB 3.2 Type C and Type A) (DS-UCTB)

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The issue is 10 drives sharing the 10Gbps USB 3.1 gen 2 interface. Hardware RAID is no longer recommended as software can keep up and gives the flexibility in not being paired with a specific controller or losing all of your data.

The Mini PCs we normally see listed max out with 2.5Gbps networking. So this would be able to keep up and saturate the pipe. If you needed more bandwidth, having separate direct SATA connections would be needed, likely with some type of external SAS connection.

10 drives is very large, unless you are going for extremely cheap small drives to fill the array. IMO it's better to use larger drives as each drive consumes power to run. UGreen has a Kickstarter going right now that has some really crazy deals for NASes that are supposed to ship in June. You might be more bang for your buck there.

Also, anyone thinking of using this many drives, Go with at least one parity disk, or even better two. The chance of data loss increases as you move to more and more drives. Not caring about movies on a single 10TB drive... fine. Not caring about 180TB, that's going to be a much larger pain to replace everything.
Be sure to throw it on a UPS.

I was checking what level of support it has from Sabrent (zero, they have really gone downhill with firmware updates) and there's a thread about how it doesn't have automatic power recovery to bring the drives back up after power loss.
they are sausages, not hot dogs, get it right!


actually, i am not even sure of the reference? but sabrent is very well known in ssd and pc component business for the last 5-10 years

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03-29-2024 at 12:26 PM.
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Meh, I personally would rather spend a bit more and get way more functionality with an old dell server machine.
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03-29-2024 at 12:28 PM.
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Is this the same company that makes hot dogs?
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03-29-2024 at 12:45 PM.

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Is this the same company that makes hot dogs?

they are sausages, not hot dogs, get it right!


actually, i am not even sure of the reference? but sabrent is very well known in ssd and pc component business for the last 5-10 years
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03-29-2024 at 12:49 PM.
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Quote from iconian :
they are sausages, not hot dogs, get it right!


actually, i am not even sure of the reference? but sabrent is very well known in ssd and pc component business for the last 5-10 years

Sorry that is Sabrett
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03-29-2024 at 01:02 PM.
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Sorry that is Sabrett
oh, makes sense, but I never heard of that brand of food, so maybe it's regional only>?
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03-29-2024 at 04:27 PM.
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With this many drives, you really want a dedicated controller that can do more than just JBOD to get the best performance.

I can't even imagine how well a software RAID would work on this, so you definitely wouldn't want to use this for anything that requires heavy redundancy.

If you pair it with any of the mini PCs that get listed here and load it up with those refurbished server drives, it would make a pretty killer Plex server.
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Quote from wherestheanykey :
With this many drives, you really want a dedicated controller that can do more than just JBOD to get the best performance.

I can't even imagine how well a software RAID would work on this, so you definitely wouldn't want to use this for anything that requires heavy redundancy.

If you pair it with any of the mini PCs that get listed here and load it up with those refurbished server drives, it would make a pretty killer Plex server.
That's exactly what I was planning to get it for. Don't need any data redundancy for that
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That's exactly what I was planning to get it for. Don't need any data redundancy for that

Be sure to throw it on a UPS.

I was checking what level of support it has from Sabrent (zero, they have really gone downhill with firmware updates) and there's a thread about how it doesn't have automatic power recovery to bring the drives back up after power loss.
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03-30-2024 at 01:19 AM.
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It's a tremendous risk to drop 10 drives in such a thing. If you seriously need so many drive bays, search for a used server on Craigslist, you will find very nice ones much cheaper than this.
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03-30-2024 at 01:31 AM.
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Went to Sabrent site and they have the same price of $399. However when entering an email address and a verification code advertised price on site drops to $339 but I can't get price in the cart. See attached screenshot.
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03-30-2024 at 07:09 AM.
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Damn this is a great price. I have the 5-bay version that I bought for $279 a few years back
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Quote from namlook :
Went to Sabrent site and they have the same price of $399. However when entering an email address and a verification code advertised price on site drops to $339 but I can't get price in the cart. See attached screenshot.

Same thing is happening to me
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It's a tremendous risk to drop 10 drives in such a thing. If you seriously need so many drive bays, search for a used server on Craigslist, you will find very nice ones much cheaper than this.
whats the risk? Is it data loss or something that can harm drives?
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