My early 2008 MacPro is finally aging out to the point where daily productivity is being affected. I'm switching to a Mac Mini but want to retain the drives I have in the MacPro. I'm looking at adding a 5-bay external drive enclosure. Hot-swappable isn't a necessity but I can see where it would be a nice option. The only issue I've seen on some of these enclosures is that the fans can be pretty noisy. If possible I think I'd prefer one that has a load/heat switch for fan control.
Is anyone currently using one that you like?
Just for home? No need for portable?
The two brands recommended to me were Orico and Synology. I think synology stopped doing just dumb drive bays and now they do all NAS, but I could be wrong. I got the synology because I wanted the NAS part
In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :
Just for home. I've got a 1TB portable drive I take if needed. I don't need the NAS feature, just a dumb drive bay.
How big are those 5 drives? If they're fairly small, you'll probably come out ahead buying one new drive that's big enough to hold all the data and copying it over.
