Internal or external enclosure for RAID

[N3rot0xin]

I'm getting very close to filling up my 500gb HDD in my rig. Something I didn't think I would do for a very long time. I need to expand it. For a while now i've been using an external 4-bay Venus T4s raid enclosure, each one of which has a 500gb HDD in it. Two of them are Mirrored, the other are spanned (or JBOD'd i guess). They're connected via an eSATA. I know for a fact I can't use them as game storage in their current location because its very slow and not well ventilated. I want to keep the raid array, but I'm not sure how well its working when each drive is not connected physically to the motherboard. I want to move all 4 drives to my tower, but I'm not sure I can break up the array and not lose any data. There's not a whole lot on it but its all things I need. What would be the best course of action as far as the raid is concerned? Having all 4 drives in my tower would really open up some RAID options. 

[piplupgao]

I think you should get some new drives WD 1tb blues are only 50 dollars here in the us anyways

[N3rot0xin]

I'm saving for something else atm, so I can't spend money on this problem just yet. Later down the road I will replace all my HDDs with fewer but higher capacity drives. For now I have to work with what I have.

EDIT: Also, where do you find them for only $50? Newegg and Amazon have the Blue 1tb at about $70, +/- $5.

[CoolBeans]

I'm saving for something else atm, so I can't spend money on this problem just yet. Later down the road I will replace all my HDDs with fewer but higher capacity drives. For now I have to work with what I have.EDIT: Also, where do you find them for only $50? Newegg and Amazon have the Blue 1tb at about $70, +/- $5.

That won't be worth it, just upgrade once and never upgrade again

[wpirobotbuilder]

How are the drives connected? Multiple eSATA connections?

[N3rot0xin]

No. They're alk in one enclosure sharing the esata. And I have to use the HDDs that I have. I'm not buying anything atm.