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theonlyBuster
By theonlyBuster
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So back when SSD was first announced, I was one of the many early adopters.  To make things even "worse" when there were significant price drops, I invested more money.  I've now found myself with quite a few SSDs, too many to use internally, and I know for HDDs there are storage enclosures where you can install multiple drives and have one single plug going to your computer. 

I was curious to know if something like this existed for SSDs as of yet? 

 

I'm going back and forth in my head between consolidating them into single cases OR getting one large high end HDD and transporting the contents to it. 

Yes, the HDD route will likely be cheaper, but I just wanted to know what options I had.

 

My original idea was to get enclosures for the SDDs and connect the enclosures to a USB 3.0 hub, then connect the hub to my computer. 

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They're no different than a 3.5" drive. Just buy one of those enclosures and go nuts?

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It's great, BUT the only problem are ALL of the SATA connections.  My computer doesn't have enough excess SATA ports, that's why I was hoping to utilize a single USB 3.0 to connect them to the PC. 

But using the comment dizmo dropped, I know I can search the interwebs without fear of finding mothering commercially. 

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