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Daisy Chain 4 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure USB 3.2 Gen 2 Aluminum Das Enclosure Support 22TB and Expansion Max Up to 264TB for 3.5-inchs HDD -9948C3 for $229.99 - 30% w/clipped coupon on product page = $160.99.
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Details: - Support up to 22 TB 3.5-inch SATA hard disks and max up to 88TB capacity. Expansion 264 TB storage through daisy chain up to 3 devices, with 10Gbps USB 3.1 Gen 2
- It supports plug and play, with no necessity to install additional drivers, and is compatible with all kinds of mainstream operating systems
- The daisy chain external enclosure is equipped with 4 independent disk slots and supports the eject function of a single disk
- Built-in 150 W power supply within smooth data transfer when multi-disk reading.
- Aluminum alloy metal shell within 80mm cooling fan with the holes of front and rear heat dissipation airflow design.
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What are you comparing it to?
This is not expensive at all compared to other DAS and certainly nowhere near as expensive as a NAS.
And if you're thinking you can replicate it with multiple hard drive enclosures, consider that a USB hub will not give you the same level of performance.
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Absolutely.
You get 4 bays completely external from the mini PC, so it doesn't add extra heat.
Just load up OpenMediaVault or UnRAID and you have a NAS.
Performance wise, dedicated SATA ports for each drive might be slightly better, but not by much for things like file downloads or Plex.
But where it really makes sense is if you ever want to upgrade your mini PC, you don't have to worry about whether it has the SATA ports.
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It's potentially both.
The chipset commonly used in these is an Asmedia ASM105 or JMS578, which have been around since before 24TB+ was available.
Many of these enclosures are on old firmware, which may have a limitation but can be updated.
However, the D4-320 supposedly has the same limit and yet here's someone using 28TB drives with it: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoar...tb_d
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Before you criticize something, try to learn about it, or else risk looking silly. For example, this is a DAS, meaning it does not run software like a NAS (e.g. Synology) does. You simply plug it into your computer and now you can have 4 extra hard drives attached to it. This could be useful if you own a MicroATX or ITX system that cannot accommodate hard drives in the case.
Orico makes nice products at a good price point. I have an m.2 enclosure from them that works great and was like $8.
If you get hacked through your usb drive its already over.
This is not expensive at all compared to other DAS and certainly nowhere near as expensive as a NAS.
And if you're thinking you can replicate it with multiple hard drive enclosures, consider that a USB hub will not give you the same level of performance.
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Nope.
It's one USB interface with a SATA multiplexer, then a hub for the daisy chain.
There's zero bus segmentation and all the SATA ports can talk to each other.
Like I said, you aren't going to replicate it with a hub and individual controllers. You would need at least two independent (non shared) USB ports, two separate hubs, and four enclosures rated for 5Gbps each to get anywhere close to the same performance.