Hi,
I've been using Yottamaster 5 bay DASs to connect ~12 or so HDDS to a mini pc but pretty often one or more of the drives will randomly stop being detected by Windows and I have to physically unplug / replug the drive into the yottamaster or turn the yotta master on/off to fix this.
This unfortunately also causes stress on the drives and I recently had one drive get a corrupted partition table, which luckily I was able to fix with testdisk.
I'd like to build a PC that can handle 12-20 HDDS instead of using these DAS units.
Can anyone help with recommendations on how to achieve this?
From my research I think I'll need the following:
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PC Case with tons of 3.5" or 5.25" slots (that can be converted with adapters for more 3.5" bays).
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Floor space on the bottom of the PC to fit more drives if all bays are used up, and stack a few HDD this way.
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SATA Card to add more HDDS if I use up all HDD a standard ATX or E-ATX mobo has.
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Good motherboard / intel chip recommendations
Pretty open minded on the budget for this, I'd prefer quality that will last.
I've seen the name Phantek thrown around a bit, wondering if there's other cases I should be looking at too.
Thanks!