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I am wondering if it makes any sense for me to possibly look into an external drive enclosure for my pc. I recently was attempting to streamline my desk and decided to go a little smaller with a meshify c. I really like it but currently it only accommodates 2 3.5" drive bays.

 

I prefer to be able to make a little raid array to one increase storage and have a little redundancy. I saw Dmitry at hardware canucks review of the meshify c and he tried using an external drive enclosure from Silverstone. He mentioned not being able to get it to work right bit never really followed up. I guess I am asking if anyone else does this? If so what is their set up and what would be some good enclosures to look at and what interface might be best?

 

For me I currently have 2 3.5" drives in a Windows storage space set up. I also though have a few extra droves stirring around that I could easily incorporate into an array if I wanted.

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Do you move the case around? If I were you I'd just place new HDDs under the graphics card, on top of the PSU compartment.

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