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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have an old OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 4 Bay Hard drive RAID Enclosure (1st generation) but I can't get it to be recognized by a computer. Mostly trying with linux over usb.

I've been thinking about maybe removing the electronics in it and just using it as an enclosure. It holds 4 drives nicely with a fan. Any thoughts about what I could use, I'm fine with just a USB interface. I don't need fast data access.

EDIT: other hardware I already have that could be useful:

1 - Intel NUC NUC5i7RYH
1 - Intel NUC NUC6CAY
2 - PINE A64+ 1GB

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[–] Krafting 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

maybe a rasberry pi with a 4 SATA ports addon could work, then you can use the pi as a network drive.

However, you'll need to figuresomething out for the power for the drives...

I have no idea how the inside are made, so you can try taking it apart to see for yourself! (don't forget to take picture, so you can reassemble it after ahah)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

thanks, yeah I've been looking into the ROCK Pi Dual/Quad SATA HAT but it doesn't seem super available in the US. I'd also have to buy a raspberry pi. Could be worth it though

[–] Krafting 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.radxa.com%2Fmw%2Fimages%2Fb%2Fb4%2FQuad_sata_hat_35_hdd.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=3547ed7d39d1b5c9a73642290e170f1a006f303a53ef5229311fe5f1a7b287b1&ipo=images

I found this picture, which could be exactly what you could want (I believe it is a Rock Pi SATA HAT ?), of course, now, time to find what hardware can do that for the cheapest!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah that HAT looks pretty sweet, haven't found a place to buy it though.