Going to need a significant amount of storage soon. eSATA it’s significantly cheaper than a SAS enclosure + card.
I had thought that if i’m going to use a snapraid setup for these drives (to make it so only one drive it’s active for any given opperation, it should work the same.
Any experience with this type of setup?
This is dumb, because there are a ton of drive cages that fit in a couple of 5.25" drive bays, contain a backplane, and either SATA connectors or an SAS connector. Easy example: https://www.newegg.com/athena-power-bp-tla3141sas12-other/p/N82E16816119046?item=9SIAZ8XJ1U6752
So the idea that there’s no demand for this just can not be true, since people are literally making the hardware, just not the piece of metal to wrap around the drive cage so you can set it on a desk.