Hi everyone, I am a relative newbie to the Networking and storage side of IT. I am trying to upgrade my setup so I can make my Plex server bigger to handle the current media I have plus my friends collection (12 TBs in total. My plan is to buy some 14TB drives and setup a RAID5 setup using Drivepool/Snapraid and I am fairly solid on all of that. However I cannot for the life of me figure out a DAS enclosure that is under $200 and not trash. I was scouring the stores and I found Amazon had the best prices on things however I am still struggling so I have two questions.
- Do you know of any <$200 External drive enclosures that will last me a bit?
- If I can't find a DAS solution I have found a NAS case I would be happy with (Jonsbo 8 Bay) however I am unsure if I can use the USB 3.2/3.0 connections it has to function like a DAS because I do not have the time to build a NAS at the moment. Can you use NAS cases for a DAS situation?
Thanks!