CENMATE Aluminum 12 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure with Cooling Fan for 2.5“/3.5" SATA HDD/SSD with USB A/C 3.0, Support Hot Swappable, Tool-Free HDD Enclosure, DAS(NO RAID/NAS)

CENMATE Aluminum 12 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure with Cooling Fan for 2.5“/3.5" SATA HDD/SSD with USB A/C 3.0, Support Hot Swappable, Tool-Free HDD Enclosure, DAS(NO RAID/NAS)

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TheWDWillis posted on r/homelab2w

I mean, you have a usb 2 tb drive, so ~grab a usb hub and add more I guess.I can’t really give better answer here, cause I’m not sure what you are really looking for. I don’t know what OS you are running, which really matters.For my feelings, building up a NAS is the answer. You can do it from the laptop… if you have a usb-c port, preferably a 3.0 port, you can get some great external encloses for 2.5 or 3.5 drives.and then there is this monster Hook that up to your laptop and it’s got plenty of storage for plex. Now, bang for your buck, a DS4243 can be had for less, and has twice the capacity. You just need a system that can host an Ali host bus adapter, which means an open pcie port. Even most cheap small form factor computers (not Minis) can handle that.Even a modest drive can host the OS for NAS and Plex. Toss in a decent GPU, and plex can transcode Just my opinion.But the nice thing about the monster drive tower is you can fill it as you do, and even if you flip to a tower that enclosure will still work, just unplug here and plug in there.