[ale] Ale Digest, Vol 134, Issue 6

[TheSmokintbird]

You asked about the ESATA interface, but you will lose a significant amount
of transfer speed if you go with a single ESATA aggregating 4 standard SATA
connections.

I decided to go with more cabling complexity but have the best transfer
speeds possible by using these housings.  They are aluminum housings with
their own built-in fan.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BMJ1YHK

To connect that to the PC, I used the following other parts to make it all
connect.
PCIE 4x SATA card - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FR3LD2S
SATA Power Extension Cables - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0711M91D4
Thin and Flexible SATA cables - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IBA3ITK

This works great to give my file server external hot swap bays. (Although
the housing would work great as an internal 3.5 inch drive housing also)

Chris Atkinson

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all
doubt - Abraham Lincoln


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> Subject: [ale] JBOD eSATA enclosures
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> Anyone have a recommendation for external JBOD enclosures (no RAID
> required) with at least four bays and an eSATA interface?  I can't seem
> to find any good reviews online for a simple box and both Amazon and
> NewEgg reviews are mixed.
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> The two big things are that it will power back on after a power outage
> (well, really after the UPS is forced to turn off because the power
> outage was too long) and that it has a large fan for cooling so the fan
> doesn't need to run high RPMs.  A lot of what I've seen are
> hot-swappable systems that have each drive power switched individually
> but they're all using soft power control so the unit doesn't come back
> online if power is reapplied.  Some of them also use tiny switching
> power supplies with 30-40 mm fans as the only cooling which will both
> cook the drives and make tons of noise.
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> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 08:50:51 -0500
> From: Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [ale] NAS drives for eternal enclosure?
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> What's the difference between a regular drive and a NAS drive? The use
> case is a backup drive in a single disk Rosewill enclosure, for MacOS.
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