[OT] Does a multi-drive USB external hard disk rack exist?

[ms]

On 05/09/10 00:23, Steven Susbauer wrote:
> On 9/4/2010 6:02 PM, Tony Arnold wrote:
>> On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 23:42 +0100, ms wrote:
>>> Is something of this kind available on the market? If yes, could you
>>> point me where/what?
>>
>> I found this after some quick Googling:
>>
>> http://www.usb-ware.com/5-bay-sata-raid-enclosure-t5r5esuf.htm
>>
>> Any good?
>
> The key word is "enclosure". There are quite a few hard disk enclosures
> on newegg and elsewhere which will either do the raid internally or
> present both disks (as JBOD) which you can then use btrfs, lvm, zfs or
> other means to use as one large disk.
>
> For example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817193059
>
> A Google search for "jbod enclosure" or "raid enclosure" will get you
> some results. Note that larger capacity (usually over two drives)
> enclosures often use esata more than usb.
>

Wonderful, thank you!
I don't have an esata port on my laptop, but I've seen there are usb 
converters, so I guess it's not a big problem -or it is?

Now that I know the keywords (didn't know about jbod), I will do a bit 
of research by myself and came back eventually; if you have further 
advice, please do.

thanks again,
M.