M.2 to SATA Adapter with 6 SATA Cables, M Key to SATA3.0 Card, ASMedia ASM1166 Chip, Support SSD and HDD for Desktop PC with LED Indicator, Tools Included

So last week I saw THIS (M2 SSD port to 6x SATA) Mated with THESE (dc to 3x SATA power) Connected to a Dell mini in a very cool 3d printed case. It made a perfect little JBOD NAS.This got me thinking. I have about 100 HP PD 600 G3 minis in the garage, with 8gb of ram each. They also have 256 SATA 2.5” SSDs and the M2 port. And I have about 200 spinning 3.5” SATA drives split between 256G, 512G, 1TB, 2TB in a roughly 65/30/3/2 split.And another 100 or so 256G 2.5” SATA drives, and about 50 512’s.I’ve also got a bunch of the prodesk mini G4’s and G5’s and g6’s too, like a dozen 6, and probably 20 each of the 4’s and 5’s. And ALL of those have 2 m2 slots plus the 2.5 SATA spots.So for those I could run 12 disks.So why NOT jbod it all to build a massive storage cluster? I can easily fab up a far less pretty solution than the guy I saw did, basically cutting/bending/drilling sheet metal to bolt the drives to, and connect to the minis. Those already have VESA holes in the bottom, so, that wouldn’t be too hard (and my son is proud I didn’t just say “use plumbers strapping”). But for around $50 in on each unit, I could turn them into very functional nas units delivering a minimum of 1TB storage each into a drive pool. I can cut the cost a little more, in that I have MANY older PC power supplies I could dedicate to the project, and PLENTY of SATA power connections for them. I could basically set it to toggles turning in clusters of 3 drives at a time to handle that startup surge… At least that’s what I’m thinking about today.But I’m gonna need to build a dam or a windmill or something to generate the power for all that. Plus cooling, and accounting for harmonic vibration among the spinners. Rubber grommets only do so much.But it would be one cool as heck Frankenstein storage rack.

I wonder if you could use something like this https://a.co/d/086hwGtl