You can't buy this! Affordable Custom 2.5 inch SATA SSD/HDD 4 Bay Direct Attached Drive Enclosure

## Update on USB to NVME Enclosures It was brought to my attention in the comments that most of the USB to NVME enclosures don't tunnel PCIE traffic so they will not work for this, unless it's USB 4.0 that can support PCIE. However, it works well with Thunderbolt ones like I have done here. Bottom line is that the cost may go up a little bit once we replace the USB enclosure with a thunderbolt one, but we get 40 G speeds which is a welcome tradeoff I guess. Sorry about the confusion in the video, please make sure to check for this if you are planning a similar build and make sure you don't waste your money by choosing a wrong enclosure. Thanks for all your support!

For a long time i was searching for this kind of solution. Thx for the video. :)

Since the goal is low cost and functionality, you might want to look into single board omputers such as the Orange Pi Zero. Low cost, might fit into the existing case and add wifi/ethernet for a NAS and only need open source software to boot from.

I love this, I have the same drive cage and it doesn’t fit in my new server chassis, so I want to repurpose it. Thanks for sharing!

Love this. I wanted to use one of those enclosures as well but couldn't figure out how to power it. Thanks for the ideas. Also that keyboard gadget giveaway looks good, would be interested in it. 😂

Great idea, nicely made video ❤

Wow, you made your own case. That's really cool. Make a video on that.

Awesome project!

Very cool. Yes, please post links to the parts. 😎

Power for external diy storage solutions has always been an issue, as no one makes a power supply just for hard drives. If you go sata ssd then you only need 5v which makes it easier.

Wow, looks very interesting. I'm very curious how well it works with a ProxMox cluster. Thanks for doing the giveaway!

Great Idea, looks like a cheaper and possibly more power efficient.

There a cad for NAS cases with support for 6 x 2.5inch drive. However it uses smaller motherboard need to stripe from industrial router pc from aliexpress

i'm curious about the enclosure. is the alu plate cut or bent to the shape? if the alu plate is cut, what is the black piece that connects them together?

nice video very informing. i was working on something like it except i needed a raspberry pi to act like a NAS server and cloud machine , i designed a 3d printable case but i am having problems trying to power everything (4 sata SSD and 4 nvme drives all in USB enclosures)

are you sure you can use a USB to nvme adapter with that sata m.2 card? Thunderbolt does indeed get a pci-e signal, but USB doesn.t Those USB > NVME really only read the drive and serve the data to you. At least update on that beacuse people can and likely will waste money on that

Awesome video! Really look forward to seeing how you turn this into a NAS. Definitely interested in the giveaway :) Subscribed!

interesting... curious to see how the nas convertion will turn out..

3:28 are you REALLY sure? Those usb-ssd adapters work it a different way than thunderbolt ones, USB ones are drive controllers, dedicated to work with PCIE disk drives, while thunderbolt ones are just thunderbolt to PCIE adapters, where any PCIE device can be connected (diy EGPU docks can be built using ones)

The giveway is intereating...Hope it gets to whoever needs it.